Example sentences of "which were [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 To provide some much-needed improvement the InterCity director decided to transfer ten HSTs to the Midland — five from the Great Western , two from the East Coast main line plus three which were part of the build for the Cross Country ( North East-South West ) routes .
2 Fig. 10 includes large proportions of rabbits and birds , neither of which were part of the comparative fauna obtained by trapping , so that the two samples appear very dissimilar .
3 Hardly a true grand cru , Sillery gained its prominence from the slopes of Verzenay which were part of the estate of the famous Brularts .
4 It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants .
5 v. Commission of the European Communities ( Joined Cases 154/78 , 205/78 , 206/78 , 226/78 , 227/78 , 228/78 , 263/78 , 264/78 , 31/79 , 39/79 , 83/79 , 85/79 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 907 that the guarantee afforded to the ownership of property did not extend to protect commercial interests , the uncertainties of which were part of the very essence of economic activity .
6 Because of the workings of the housing market the local working population tends to congregate on the village council housing estate ( where one is available ) , where the closely knit patterns of neighbourly association which were part of the occupational community are retained .
7 The Yek were practically immune to the extremes of heat and cold which were part of the climate of Tarvaras , and even they took shelter , if it was possible , from the midday intensity of the red giant around which the world and its two moons orbited .
8 As a sign of this , a statue of Sanjurjo in Pamplona was adorned with one of the red berets which were part of the Carlist uniform .
9 The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s .
10 It proposed longer-term measures for the reorganization of the industry , including the nationalization of mining royalties , amalgamations and some closures , Government aid for research and improved marketing , and a gradual extension of welfare services into family allowances , holidays , improved housing and some degree of profit-sharing , which were anathema to the owners and unwelcome to the Government .
11 The declaration made clear that the Union Treaty need only be signed by the nine republics which were party to the Novoye Ogarevo meeting .
12 Perhaps Marcus had read her previous reticence to give herself completely to him as boredom with the scenario of casual individual relationships which were par for the course for their contemporaries , and had laid on a partner-swapping party to titillate her interest .
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