Example sentences of "which was [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |
| 2 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 3 | This friend suggested that there might be something which had happened at an earlier stage in Kirsty 's life which was causing her health to deteriorate now . |
| 4 | There was an air of amused but brutal determination about him which was sending her brain scuttling in all directions . |
| 5 | The character of the design does not differ from that of contemporary marbles , but arms and hands free of the body ( cf. fig. 72 where , in spite of the struts , the hands are lost ) demonstrate the much greater tensile strength of bronze , which was to allow its use in the classical period for compositions which the Greek marble-worker would have shunned . |
| 6 | Well , the night after Sandy won his Open he was in the marquee , which was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on , cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 7 | Rostov looked down at the hand which was holding his arm . |
| 8 | More recently , the Court of Appeal set aside an order prohibiting reporting by radio or television of a trial of fraud and corruption charges which was nearing its end at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 9 | Sebestyen recalls wanting ‘ to counteract the aesthetic of technologised murder which was filling our TV screens ’ . |
| 10 | I did indeed want ‘ to counteract the aesthetic of technologised murder which was filling our TV screens ’ . |
| 11 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 12 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |
| 13 | We approached the east landing cautiously and the cliffs awoke with bird clamour which was to assail our ears until we left . |
| 14 | What is clear from the minutes is that the implications of school closure for the way of life of the community which was to lose its school were not considered . |
| 15 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 16 | Ed Riverton was a top executive in INCUBUS , the great American banking syndicate which was spreading its tentacles across Europe , investing in just about every type of company which existed . |
| 17 | She was amazed at herself , at the weird awful feeling of triumph which was consuming her body , licking up over her like a flame . |
| 18 | His mercurial personality was likened to quicksilver , to which was lent his name , according to Hoole 's Ariosto : |
| 19 | Blake thought the burning incense could have been a hallucinogenic drug which was altering his perception . |
| 20 | He also started the city 's silk industry which was to underpin its economy for many years . |
| 21 | Although it began in southern Spain , his movement quickly spread west and north , eventually establishing its most tenacious roots in Galicia , which was to become its heartland . |
| 22 | To a large extent , the cabinet reshuffle of 1957 marked the point at which the Franco regime adopted the style which was to become its hallmark in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 23 | His earliest stage roles at Barnes and the Everyman in Hampstead in 1926 were in classic Russian plays but in 1928 , at the Little Theatre in London , he first made his name in the type of role which was to become his hallmark : that of the neurotic , greedy , sinister villain in A Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Then , that autumn , and quite by chance , something happened which was to alter his life . |
| 25 | It was an experience which was to alter his life . |
| 26 | This chapel marks the ultimate halt in a via sacra of 14 chapels which was to wind its way down the hill to the Malá Strana . |
| 27 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 28 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 29 | He had indeed gained strength since he came home but was nevertheless prone to stumble and even fall , as the drug which was keeping his mind rational was also weakening his muscles and bones . |
| 30 | It was at the little house that she shared with Ella that Dimity received the proposal of marriage which was to change her life . |