Example sentences of "which were [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 2 | Now the Moors began to enter the gardens which were round about the town , and the watchman saw them and struck the bell . |
| 3 | It deals with exemption clauses and it replaces and greatly extends certain provisions which were previously in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 . |
| 4 | He said it as if books were some terrible bore which everybody had to put up with but which were n't of the slightest use . |
| 5 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 6 | John Aitken , defending , said he would be trying to persuade the court not to confiscate some of the weapons which were not on the charge . |
| 7 | Losses which were not under the insurance safety net — such as product loss or damage , investigation costs and loss of corporate image — were also accounted for ; these were the uninsured losses . |
| 8 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 9 | The burghers of Kinsai ranked is lesser Khans , and they had done their best to decorate in suitable style those areas of their city which were not in the path of the official progress . |
| 10 | The case arose after Jeffrey M. Masson , a psychoanalyst , attempted to sue a journalist , Janet Malcolm , for writing an article about him which included several quotations which were not among the transcripts of the tape-recorded interviews which she had conducted with him . |
| 11 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 12 | I felt ill , but Friday wanted to eat the pieces of men 's bodies which were still on the ground . |
| 13 | The rector 's modest possessions which were still inside the house must be consumed by the fire . |
| 14 | We slipped along the now four-lane Al Ain highway , winding in and out of the sections which were still in the process of being built . |
| 15 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 16 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 17 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 18 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 19 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 20 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |
| 21 | Negative statements such as ‘ I do n't know how you can work with them ’ or ‘ they do n't belong here — this is a college ’ , which were once like a red rag to a bull to me , no longer insult or injure as they did . |
| 22 | This suggests that certain Third World countries , or institutional sectors within them , which were once in the thrall of dependency , can escape and reverse their previous disadvantage . |
| 23 | Ford and other carmakers have steadily reduced their 1993 sales targets for Europe , which were once in the 14 million to 15 million vehicle range . |