Example sentences of "which [was/were] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 2 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 3 | Not only would it be impossible to identify the goods which were at the buyer 's risk but also it would be impossible to identify any goods which were pro rata at his risk . |
| 4 | The structural changes which were at the heart of Big Bang necessitated a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework . |
| 5 | However , we are concerned about the distinct lack of any clear recognition that the principles of environmental sustainability , which were at the heart of the White Paper , should underpin the future development of industry , commerce and small businesses . |
| 6 | Progress or improvement is no more likely than decline : he now repeatedly disowns any necessary historical logic of progress ; its incarnations will always , strictly speaking , be accidental ones in relation to the objectives which were at the origin of praxis : |
| 7 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 8 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 9 | Only when the critic has access to all the sources which were at the disposal of the editor can his findings be absolutely certain . |
| 10 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 11 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 12 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 13 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 14 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 15 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 16 | On 1 October the Italians proposed to the convention 's scientific committee that the reactor ‘ pot ’ , which was at the heart of the explosion , should be dumped , 700 km off the Spanish coast in the area used annually by Britain for dumping nuclear waste . |
| 17 | But they say : ‘ It seems the in-patient service , which was at the heart of the Leukaemia Unit Fund appeal , will not be provided in the new unit for quite some time . ’ |
| 18 | It seems that the in-patient service , which was at the heart of the Leukaemia Unit Fund Appeal , will not be proved in the new unit for quite some time . |
| 19 | Sometimes he suspected that she had even known how diminished was his remaining store of faith , that it was this essential lack and not his general inadequacy which was at the core of her disdain . |
| 20 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 21 | The uprising was put down by the action of the police and the army , and an unknown number of people were killed , among them Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine , leader of the fanatical sect which was at the centre of the trouble . |
| 22 | It is crucial to make a clear distinction between the type of misappropriation involved in Winans and that which was at the centre of both the Newman and Materia cases . |
| 23 | The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century . |
| 24 | There were over 32 design faults in the RBMK 1000 reactor , which was at the centre of the Chernobyl incident , according to a report by the deputy head of the Soviet state committee for atomic energy , N. A. Steinburg . |
| 25 | Now it sat upon a plinth of stone the height of two standing men which was at the concourse of the broad principal streets which radiated out from Kinsai like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 26 | Apart from the kitchen , the only other major work was on the bathroom , which was at the back of the house , through the third bedroom . |
| 27 | Penelope was interested to see Ianthe 's bedroom , which was at the back of the house , looking over the garden . |
| 28 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes he does n't actually talk , ’ she had explained to David Quest soon after they met , which was at the wedding of Kate Molland and James Salperton . |
| 30 | The three newspapers I took were sticking through my front door , which was at the side of the house . |