Example sentences of "which was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single-handedly she produced a report which was a masterly review of the nursing practice in London — and its shortcomings — in 1874 . |
| 2 | Apart from Bob Cole 's homebuilt HM293 G-AXPG which was a familiar site at PFA fly-ins in the early 70s , and believed to be still in store , no other versions of the Flea have flown in the UK since the War . |
| 3 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 4 | At one end stood the Imperial Throne over which hung a purple baldaquin at the top of which was a golden Imperial eagle . |
| 5 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 7 | They were in bed , which was a suitable place for erotic thoughts ; but now was hardly the right time . |
| 8 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |
| 9 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 10 | ‘ Which was a criminal waste . |
| 11 | More than three hundred and fifty visitors from all parts of the British Isles attended and participated in a programme consisting of religious services , business meetings , lectures , receptions , entertainments , outings and a banquet , which was a grand occasion supported by two hundred and forty-seven guests . |
| 12 | I removed the lesion , which was a nodular malignant melanoma of Breslow thickness 3.2 mm . |
| 13 | Which was a curious sensation , since in fact her eyes were downcast , apparently studying the vinyl squares of the floor . |
| 14 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 15 | Well , I feel better than I was , but I 've been at Haywoods Heath which was a religious community |
| 16 | At the end of one of the avenues stood the Santuario della Madonna del Rosario , a large seventeenth-century church which was a famous place of pilgrimage . |
| 17 | Also thanks are due to all who floated their stamps off paper before handing them in , which was a tremendous help . |
| 18 | Among other things , they had no fixed income , which was a definite stipulation , and were thus a definite threat to the older orders . |
| 19 | He had a little more scope in the military arena , which was a second area of conflict with the Allies . |
| 20 | The men stood aside and she walked in between them … almost stumbled in between them ; and then she was in a large room in the middle of which was a long table covered in oilcloth . |
| 21 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 22 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
| 23 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |
| 24 | He took her back to her flat in Putney , which was a long way , and she turned out to be keen on cocoa . |
| 25 | Which was a long time ago . |
| 26 | The shops were mere cupboards , little dark recesses , six feet high , six deep and four wide , lined with shelves , in front of which was a long , low counter on which the owner sat , like some carved idol in a niche . |
| 27 | Which was a right drag — Kensal Green was a quid cab ride from the West End which was within my pocket . |
| 28 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 29 | From the dining-area another archway led into the kitchen , a long , narrow , galley-type room with two deeply recessed windows — the sills tiled , under one of which was a modern stainless-steel sink , I was pleased to note . |
| 30 | A scorchmark on the cloth that had its own secret history , mysterious unopened mail behind a small plaster model of an Alsatian dog on the mantelpiece ( which was a modern , ugly mantelpiece made of beige tiles ) . |