Example sentences of "which was the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It was the industrial revolution which was the major foce behind the development of water treatment processes such as softening .
3 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 .
4 She 'd had to walk from the more expensive inn up the road which was the official halt for the northbound stagecoach .
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 Staring down through the window , she gazed at the icefield which was the frozen Baltic .
9 " I want you too , " I said — which was the simple truth .
10 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 .
11 The source of consensus was to be found in the division of labour , which was the pre-eminent fact of social solidarity .
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 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 .
14 The excellence of their design meant an interloper would be slowed for a moment to decide which was the real one .
15 The supplier had a number of names and no-one who dealt with him knew , or cared to know , which was the real one .
16 Which was the real Nathan Bryce ?
17 He found the research interesting , which was the only thing which made him stay , but the firm did n't own him .
18 Then the pastry for the tarte , again all mixed by hand , would not lift off the board — which was the only time Eric had to come to the rescue .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Melot 's Arab spy was engaged to guide everyone to the Wadi Fetilia which was the only practical route down the escarpment on to the coastal plain .
23 There is a Titanic bear based on a teddy which survived that disaster in 1912 and a Mister Whoppit bear which was the only object to re-surface when Donald Campbell 's boat disintegrated while he was trying to break the world water speed record on Lake Coniston in 1967 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed .
30 She stooped again , waggling her backside , which was the only way she could think of moving from her hips .
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