Example sentences of "which were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a large village with earthworks on the periphery which were excavated initially by David Hall in advance of redevelopment for houses . |
| 2 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 3 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 4 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 5 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 6 | The two points which were made most strongly were , firstly , that they are so very much like humans in their reasoning and strategic thinking and secondly , that , to quote Dr Goodall , ‘ Only if we understand can we care . |
| 7 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 8 | The same charge will apply to the north and south car parks in Victoria Road , which were made short stay car parks a few years ago . |
| 9 | I should also itemise claims which were made under two heads which have been satisfied by interim payment . |
| 10 | Subjects were presented with a computer controlled tone in one ear and had to match this tone through movements of the tongue which were transduced so as to produce a sound which was relayed to the other ear . |
| 11 | A number of returns which were prepared manually at various locations are now produced by the computer , resulting in saving of staff time and effort . |
| 12 | It was not a good shop for sweets , the ones which were stocked always seemed dearer than their competitors . |
| 13 | Owing to the limited budget , Barbara urged caution on decision on grants which were phased over more than one year , and thus had financial implications for the future . |
| 14 | Other limestone gorges may be valleys which were cut very deep by old rivers but whose sides have remained almost vertical . |
| 15 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 16 | The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue also planned mass blockades of five abortion clinics in Iowa City , Iowa , on Sept. 14 , but pro-choice supporters turned out in far greater numbers at the demonstrations , which were conducted peacefully . |
| 17 | Various detector companies sent donations of gift which were given away at all three fetes . |
| 18 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
| 19 | He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars . |
| 20 | These included two of the incidents which were believed effectively to have triggered the civil war , namely the assassination in February 1975 in Sidon of a prominent left-wing politician , Maarouf Saad , and , two months later , the attack by armed Phalangists on a bus carrying Palestinians through the Beirut suburb of Ain Rumaneh [ see p. 27287 ] . |
| 21 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 22 | He had studied at Chelsea in his apprenticeship days and his highly successful practice in Mark Lane enabled him to retire early to Eltham in Kent and to devote the rest of his days to his garden of rare plants , many of which were sent home by his brother from the Near East . |
| 23 | Often , as many as half the inhabitants of a Victorian market town were craftsmen who both lived and worked on premises which were sited as near to the market place as possible . |
| 24 | But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents . |
| 25 | Starting with Hereford 's dreams of reaching Wembley in the Sherpa Van trophy which were blown away last night by the Wolves . |
| 26 | The most spectacular accidents were to two Standard cars which were blown over in gale-force winds : car 28 on the Cliffs in 1927 and car 50 at the Metropole in December 1940 . |
| 27 | The extent to which British society has , until recently , found such institutions congenial derives largely from an unbroken and perhaps originally feudal tradition of social networks and obligations which were imposed on and accepted by all members of society , whatever their status . |
| 28 | Much easier to photograph were the giant tortoises which were lumbering around like tanks in the undergrowth . |
| 29 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 30 | A set of phonological reduction rules was applied to this lexicon to derive fast speech forms , which were stored together with the citation form under the corresponding orthographic entry . |