Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 2 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 3 | Governments seem not to have attempted to stimulate new ideas to guide the country to solutions , but have merely implemented outdated principles , the broad bases of which were devised 50 or 100 years ago , varying slightly with political emphasis as to where the Inland Revenue collections should fall . |
| 4 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 5 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 6 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 7 | Michael Obins built a large Elizabethan-style residence for himself and 14 houses in which were settled 14 English families . |
| 8 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 9 | One dairy farm he visited on the way to Albuquerque had 750 cows which were milked three times a day through a 24/24 side-exit herringbone parlour . |
| 10 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 11 | She shook her head disbelievingly and I explained the Council 's plan which was to shift one or two caravans — and re-house the families in them — but only so there would be room to make a decent road into the plot . |
| 12 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 13 | The difference between the last elected candidate , Annon , ( DUP ) with 5,800 votes and the runner up , Donnelly ( SDLP ) with 5,124 votes , was 676 , which was covered two and a half times by 1,698 non-transferable votes most of which came from NILP and Alliance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The delay meant the team , which was based 20 mile from the resort , did not arrive until 2½ hours later . |
| 18 | The delay meant the team , which was based 20 mile from the resort , did not arrive until 2½ hours later . |
| 19 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 20 | Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two . |
| 21 | The first two of these patients were advised to undergo cholecystectomy which was done two and 10 weeks later and the remainder have been followed to determine outcome . |
| 22 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 23 | Nor was there an explanation as to why the letter , which was dated 10 June 1965 , had waited for over a year and a half before being revealed . |
| 24 | My sister , however , kindly kept him informed of my whereabouts , and he replied in two letters , the first of which was dated 30 November 1940 : The second was dated 27 May 1942 : |
| 25 | The press release which was dated 31 October 1990 summarised the effect of the intervention notice , and contained the following passage : |
| 26 | The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the LDP 's controversial UN Peace Co-operation Bill , which was withdrawn three days later . |
| 27 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 28 | The most frequently cited thesis is number 206 , which was cited 11 times . |
| 29 | Further trials on Sontochin , now SN-6911 , con firmed its considerable effectiveness , and also generated several ideas which resulted in the synthesis of a compound which was named SN-7618 . |
| 30 | Thus began the French phase of the Vietnam conflict which was to last eight years . |