Example sentences of "which were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comprehensive nature of the local groups is evident from a list of their duties , which were to focus the efforts of different agencies dealing with juvenile employment ; to organize methods of collecting information about the character , education , and home life of school-leavers , usually with the assistance of teachers and school care committees ( SCCs ) ( which were under the control of the education offices ) ; to form subcommittees or rotas to attend the labour exchange for the purpose of interviewing applicants and parents ; and to organize a system of ‘ after-care ’ in co-operation with SCCs , clubs , and other similar organizations . |
| 2 | In detail , Russell proposed completely to disfranchise small boroughs of less than 2,000 inhabitants , most of which were under the influence of a particular local patron , and some of which , like Old Sarum , were green mounds or heaps of stone . |
| 3 | The trained bands , which were under the control of the Tory-Anglican lieutenancy , and which during the Exclusion Crisis had been efficient in suppressing the activities of Whig and Nonconformist crowds , refused to act against the crowds who gathered to prevent people from attending the mass , believing that since the professed purpose was " only pulling down Popery " , they could not " in conscience hinder " . |
| 4 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 5 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 6 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 7 | That some of the recommendations were for actions which were beyond the means of the school does not deny the effectiveness of the review procedure . |
| 8 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 9 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 10 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 11 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 12 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 13 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 14 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 15 | Progress or improvement is no more likely than decline : he now repeatedly disowns any necessary historical logic of progress ; its incarnations will always , strictly speaking , be accidental ones in relation to the objectives which were at the origin of praxis : |
| 16 | The structural changes which were at the heart of Big Bang necessitated a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework . |
| 17 | Only when the critic has access to all the sources which were at the disposal of the editor can his findings be absolutely certain . |
| 18 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 19 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 20 | However , we are concerned about the distinct lack of any clear recognition that the principles of environmental sustainability , which were at the heart of the White Paper , should underpin the future development of industry , commerce and small businesses . |
| 21 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 22 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 23 | Not only would it be impossible to identify the goods which were at the buyer 's risk but also it would be impossible to identify any goods which were pro rata at his risk . |
| 24 | The police were called , after which Bradley started to tear up the paper bags which were on the counter . |
| 25 | Ignoring the whole question of invisibility , which is particularly oppressive to working-class lesbians and gays , she nonetheless raised matters which were on the minds of many other heterosexual politicians . |
| 26 | The OCU also operated the T.4s which were on the strength of the flying squadrons so that the actual complement was almost double this meagre total . |
| 27 | Problems arise when we come to consider the smaller centres , such as Arkhanes ; could they have had territories which were on the same footing as those of the major temple-centres ? |
| 28 | But sometimes before going underground a boy , on leaving school , went to work on the screens which were on the surface — top-pit . |
| 29 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 30 | Three people ( GF , MM , and MS ) lived in houses which were on the same site as other residential facilities ( called ‘ campus ’ houses in the remainder of this paper ) . |