Example sentences of "which were [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voter turnout across the Soviet Union for the referendum was put officially at 80 per cent , although the figure of 185,647,355 registered electors did not include the vast majority of the people of voting age in six republics which were officially boycotting the referendum . |
| 2 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 3 | ‘ The effect has been to reinforce the concentration of unemployment in traditional inner city areas ’ , the Centre for Local Economic Strategies ( CLES ) reported in Local Work ( 1988 ) , ‘ and in the regions which were already suffering the worst unemployment before 1979 . ’ |
| 4 | Oddly enough , in the next murder case I found myself investigating , Geoffrey was to play a small , terminal part , the effects of which were slightly to take the gilt from my findings . |
| 5 | This hints at changes which were eventually to destroy the balance of power itself ( the two most important were industrialization and imperialism ) , though their bearing on international affairs was not yet discerned in 1880 . |
| 6 | It was bounded and threatened to south and east by the forces of Islam , which were eventually to submerge the ancient eastern Christian Empire with its capital in Constantinople . |
| 7 | AD 160 saw the growth of buildings which were ultimately to affect the planning of the civilian town . |
| 8 | Between 1907 and 1911 he gave lectures which were ultimately to become the renowned Cours Linguistique Générale . |
| 9 | The needs of commerce and government created a native middle class ( from which were later to come the leaders of nationalist movements ) . |
| 10 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 11 | Pomponianus and his companions were badly worried both by the ash-fall , and by the frequent tremors which were now shaking the house . |
| 12 | By September 1938 the Club had established one thousand local groups which were actively supporting the United Peace Alliance campaign . " |
| 13 | Support of this kind was to enable Leopold to take his two young children on long musical tours throughout their formative years , tours which exposed them to a variety of European cultures and styles and which were consequently to direct the course of Mozart 's development as a musician . |