Example sentences of "which was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 2 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 3 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 4 | It was the line of the river Loire which was to save the French . |
| 5 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 6 | A small crowd had gathered round , buzzing with the excitement which was breaking the dull monotony of the day . |
| 7 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 8 | That did not change till the Peloponnesian War , one effect of which was to erode the Corinthian middle class . |
| 9 | In 1907 , Sheaffer went one better and invented the lever filler , which was patented the following year . |
| 10 | He organised a demonstration on 19 September 1954 , out of which was born the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ) , a name which in the past the LPP had employed . |
| 11 | In 1986 the leader of the Labour Party , Neil Kinnock , telephoned Malcolm Turnbull , the lawyer representing Peter Wright during the Spycatcher trial in Australia which was causing the British government and the security services endless embarrassment . |
| 12 | He knew anyway what John was doing , which was setting the fuse . |
| 13 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 14 | The first problem was not simply a lack of data : indeed , for two years , the EPA , which was funding the programme , could not decide where to start . |
| 15 | In 1769 Thomas Pickering , a tin-plate manufacturer in Southwark , patented a method of raising patterns in sheet iron which was to affect the production of coffin furniture . |
| 16 | With the distinction between Competition Sports Cars and Prototypes disappearing , a new championship was introduced in 1972 which was called the World Championship for Makes for Prototype Sports Cars ( Group 5 ) and GT Cars ( Group 4 ) . |
| 17 | The men then unloaded the corn into the side bays each of which was called the gof — or goafstead . |
| 18 | Two of the company worked , at the same time , on an educational project , funded by the Hamlyn Foundation , which was called the Rock Me Amadeus Roadshow . |
| 19 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 20 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 21 | In 1979 the Conservative Government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle the problem of excessive Union powers which was destroying the employment and the livelihood of thousands of people every week . |
| 22 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 23 | Neither Polybius nor Posidonius shows any interest in the rise of a literature in the Latin language which was rivalling the Greek . |
| 24 | The DAR were very snazz at what they did , which was remembering the founding fathers , upholding the traditional American way of life and torturing and killing people . |
| 25 | I pondered the possibility that the lad possessed some dinosaur-like secondary brain which was controlling the movements of his hand . |
| 26 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 27 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 28 | When the pointer is in the circle , turn onto the heading ( which was holding the pointer steady at 1 ½ dots ) 5° from blue , 5° from yellow . |
| 29 | Both those were necessary means towards a much more profound end , which was re-establishing the role of God within social life . ’ |
| 30 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |