Example sentences of "which was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 2 | So the next stage in our journey was perhaps predictable — we enrolled for a course with the NCT , which was made up of couples expecting their babies at roughly the same time . |
| 3 | However , for many years North Shields and Tyne mouth were combined as the small County Borough of Tyne mouth ( 70% of which was made up of North Shields ) . |
| 4 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 5 | Before the 1983 Act , the C. and A.G. was head of the Exchequer and Audit Department which was made up of around 600 civil servants . |
| 6 | On Aug. 17 Rabbani announced that Hekmatyar had been formally expelled from the Leadership Council , the highest authority in the country , which was made up of mujaheddin leaders . |
| 7 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 8 | S. Lorenzo-fuori-le-Mura , which was made up from combining two early Christian churches , one dating from 432 and the other 578 , was partly destroyed in World War II and restored in 1949 . |
| 9 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 10 | After Mass , the parishioners and family gave a reception in honour of Father at Coniston Hall , Coniston , which was attended by over 100 people and was a superb setting for the occasion , situated on the bank of Coniston Water and being overshadowed by Coniston Old Man . |
| 11 | In the Summer , the University was the venue for the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association , which was attended by over 250 researchers from throughout the UK and overseas . |
| 12 | In March 1991 President Suharto of Indonesia , Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong , Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed convened in Bali for a seminar , which was attended by over 1,000 Asian and American delegates , with the theme " ASEAN and the world economy " [ see p. 38101 ] . |
| 13 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 14 | He said Florida , which was mauled by about 50 separate tornadoes , was the only state so far to request federal disaster assistance . |
| 15 | According to a House of Commons motion , the leak was traced through a system of numbered copies of the 752-page document , which was sent out to the authorities investigating possible criminal proceedings resulting from the report 's conclusions . |
| 16 | Alongside the usual duties of a curate , I worked as leader of a faith sharing team which was sent out to many parishes leading weekends of renewal and weeks of mission . |
| 17 | Well of course we protested and went on the March for Life and Peace , which was turned back by the military . |
| 18 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 19 | The chamber opposed plans for a market of up to 42 stalls in the town 's Ivy Street car park , a scheme which was turned down by Colwyn Borough Council 's planning committee last week . |
| 20 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 21 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
| 22 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 23 | By the early decades of this century English was being called upon to sustain a " national ideal " — an ideal which was traced back to Matthew Arnold . |
| 24 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 25 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 26 | After 1870 , their attention switched to believing that Germany was a more dangerous antagonist , a belief which was borne out until 1945 . |
| 27 | The framework of the helmet consists of an iron cap , almost hemispherical , which was beaten out of one piece of metal . |
| 28 | Scotmid ’ helped celebrate with a large birthday cake which was accepted by from Craighall Day Centre for people with special needs . |
| 29 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 30 | The Armenian Energy Ministry is intending to restart the ageing reactor at Medzamor , which was shut down for safety reasons after the earthquake in 1988 . |