Example sentences of "which was the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the industrial revolution which was the major foce behind the development of water treatment processes such as softening . |
| 2 | Titration curve of the assembly of HLA-B53 with varying concentrations of the peptides ls6 , cp6 , sh6 and α 3 , YPAEITLYW , which was the major self-peptide eluted from HLA-B53 . |
| 3 | She 'd had to walk from the more expensive inn up the road which was the official halt for the northbound stagecoach . |
| 4 | Native Danuese kids — if their parents wanted them to go to school at all , and they were mostly I P big shots — had to study the principles of the malai constitution , bow to the flag , learn the kitchen malay which was the official language throughout the malai islands . |
| 5 | The Byzantine Empire , with its capital at Byzantium ( Istanbul ) , was strongly influenced by a number of contrasting elements : Christianity , which was the official religion ; the Oriental factor from further east and the Hellenic force provided by a largely Greek population in the capital and surrounding area who , due to their heredity and training , provided the best craftsmen in building and decoration . |
| 6 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 7 | K was Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane , which was the toxic chemical it had actually been sprayed with . |
| 8 | " I want you too , " I said — which was the simple truth . |
| 9 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 10 | The source of consensus was to be found in the division of labour , which was the pre-eminent fact of social solidarity . |
| 11 | IBM 's negotiators stressed this point ; indeed it was the combined IBM/other US/Japanese share of around two-thirds which was the real problem . |
| 12 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 13 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 14 | In front of it was the kitchen garden , which was the only part of the grounds to be kept in order , for Adam Diggory , although he grumbled at the necessity , was obliged to tend it as it provided most of the vegetable produce for the household table . |
| 15 | The USA , which was the only country not represented by Cabinet-level official , declined to offer any financial assistance . |
| 16 | Sally Alexander and Eleanor Gordon have both pointed out that this is one area where the census figures are particularly unreliable , since they inevitably omit or underrepresent casual , seasonal , irregular or part-time work , which was the only kind many older married women could manage . |
| 17 | He was looking unusually smart in a pin-stripe suit and a black tie which was the only colour he 'd worn since Will died . |
| 18 | Lightbown argues on the basis of all the published evidence that Piero 's National Gallery ‘ Baptism of Christ ’ was painted for the Pieve in Sansepolcro ( which was the only church in the town where baptisms were performed before 1520 ) and not the Priory of San Giovanni Battista d'Afra as most , including Bertelli , believe . |
| 19 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 20 | But on B B C which was the only station operating at that er time erm er Sunday was a a drab day . |
| 21 | That same Friday evening in August , Theodora Braithwaite drove fast down the straight Roman road which was the only road into and out of Norfolk . |
| 22 | The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed . |
| 23 | Their flat was described as a garden flat when they came to see it , which was the only occasion on which they were asked to come into the garden , into which they were later told they had no right of entry . |
| 24 | Social Worker : It may be wrong , but you could n't then make your body not a body which was the only way then you could make yourself not experience some pleasure . |
| 25 | She stooped again , waggling her backside , which was the only way she could think of moving from her hips . |
| 26 | On one occasion when our boys were returning in the basket lift , which was the only way of reaching the top platform of a rig from sea level , the crane driver had temporarily suspended out crew a few inches above the water in mock punishment for their temerity in fining him . |
| 27 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 28 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 29 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
| 30 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |