Example sentences of "which was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BSDI 's response to the amended suit , which was served last Thursday , was to declare it ‘ totally without merit ’ and ‘ another step in [ USL 's ] harassment campaign . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , one 's , one 's entitled to ask I think if there is no problem , if we only have vacancies of two or three in our elderly persons homes throughout the county wh erm why on earth did the director of the social serv , did the director of social services and his deputy at the meeting on the twenty fifth of August of the social services committee , say that this was the greatest problem which was facing this council . |
| 3 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 4 | The main reasons for the delay have been my interest in self-preservation , my desire to protect the members of the gang , and my fear of exacerbating the gang situation in Glasgow which was receiving nationwide attention in 1968 and 1969 . |
| 5 | Topaz clawed Andrew 's back , silently begging him to satisfy the ravenous craving within her which was reaching unbearable proportions . |
| 6 | According to an early eighteenth-century edition of an early Han source , it was reported of the emperor Wen that he ‘ acquired a drinking cup of jade , on which was carved this inscription : ‘ Master of Mankind , may Thy Life be prolonged to the great delight of this world ! |
| 7 | In July 1940 Bletchley had intercepted a message from Goering to the chiefs of staff of the Luftwaffe in which was made clear Hitler 's intention to prepare for the invasion of Britain — ‘ Operation Sea Lion ’ , as it was code-named . |
| 8 | " I shall write only that which was written last year and the year before that , " said the Annamese with a sarcastic smile . |
| 9 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 10 | The emperor 's death in its turn alienated his supporters , most notably the Gallo-Roman Aegidius , who began an independent career in Soissons , in the north of Gaul , which was to hold some significance for the early history of the Franks . |
| 11 | The immediate impetus for the agreement was the need to relax the blockade , which was causing immense hardship to the island 's 120,000 population and which , according to some estimates , had resulted in the deaths of as many as 3,000 people . |
| 12 | Mr Smith said that , in the private sector , jobs were threatened by the recession which was causing some parents to transfer their children to State schools . |
| 13 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 14 | The United States Carter Centre , incorporating the Council for Freely Elected Heads of Government , which was supervising electoral preparations , had found in October that some 130,000 eligible voters had been omitted from the electoral register of a potential 350,000 names and that others were registered in the wrong areas . |
| 15 | It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity . |
| 16 | The British Museum 's collection , much of which was collected last century or in the early half of this century , was shown by TL to contain some twenty forgeries , most of which had , in recent years , been suspected to be modern . |
| 17 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 19 | The new plan , which was to take immediate effect , did not , unlike its predecessor , envisage civil service salary cuts . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , before our next programme — which was recorded several years ago by the Central Office of Information — we go over to Bill Giles in the London Weather Centre for the twenty-four hour forecast . ’ |
| 21 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 22 | The revision of this coalfield area relies heavily on computerised systems for data analysis , developed during the survey of the adjacent Morpeth-Bedlington-Ashington district , a thematic mapping project jointly funded with DOE , which was completed last year . |
| 23 | Due to be finished at the end of this month , the project will add an extra 326 acute beds to the 240 long-stay and acute beds in the hospital 's first phase which was completed several years ago . |
| 24 | The Northumberland and Solway basins and some contiguous areas are the subject of the first study , which was completed this year . |
| 25 | The Northumberland and Solway basins and some contiguous areas are the subject of the first study , which was completed this year . |
| 26 | This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists . |
| 27 | Allen ( VUPP ) secured the seventh seat with 6,114 votes from Erwin ( Un ) , runner-up , with 6,066 votes , a difference of 48 votes which was covered eighty-four times by 4052 non-transferable votes . |
| 28 | The difference between O'Hanlon and News ( both SDLP ) , who was elected seventh , was only 96 , which was covered thirty-eight times by non-transferable votes . |
| 29 | The difference between Brookeborough ( UPNI ) , elected seventh , and Oliver was a mere twenty votes which was covered seventy-six times by 1507 non-transferable votes ( see below ) . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis was reported in late April as expressing " concern " over the number of attacks mounted by underground groups over the past six months , and said that his government would intensify the drive against terrorism , which was discouraging foreign tourists . |