Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1977 , the area was hit by massive floods which were made worse by the strip mining operations , leaving thousands of people homeless . |
| 2 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 3 | The present pattern of Business Studies degrees , in many respects , reflects the state of thinking of commerce degrees of the late 30s , most of which had disappeared by or soon after 1950 , in favour of a more discipline-oriented approach in which there were substantial new elements , with the appearance of sociology and politics , both of which were to acquire greater prominence . |
| 4 | They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight . |
| 5 | One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester . |
| 6 | But others felt the bins themselves presented a health hazard which was made worse by inadequate servicing in the summer . |
| 7 | But Didone has a peculiarity which was to mark later Italian opera , including L'incoronazione : the part of Jarba , Dido 's rejected lover , who in the end saves her from suicide , is a castrato singing in a higher register than Dido herself ; Nerone and Ottone are in the same predicament . |
| 8 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 9 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 10 | A crash in share prices , which was to prove greater than that of 1929 , was well underway : between September 1973 and September 1974 they were to fall by between 23 per cent in Japan and 55 per cent in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania . |