Example sentences of "which [vb past] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 2 | ( i ) Liability for negligence.In Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 the Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a clause in a plant hire contract requiring the hirer of an excavator to indemnify the owner against liability for loss caused by the driver 's negligence , which operated as an exclusion , was unreasonable . |
| 3 | The star attraction was a model of the Princes of Wales 's head which doubled as a playhouse , with her tongue as a slide ! |
| 4 | Given the sensitive functions of the librarium which doubled as the communications centre , naturally entry to that chamber was restricted . |
| 5 | Of all the multiplicity of middle-class organizations which arose as a response to the dislocation of war and the perceived threat of socialism in Great Britain , the distinguishing feature of the Britons Society was its crude and obsessional anti-semitism . |
| 6 | The second difficulty which arose as a result of the legal model 's reliance on the contractual conception of the company was the increasing artificiality of this analysis as the size of companies grew and the shareholders became increasingly passive investors . |
| 7 | The Divine Fire ( 1904 ) , which sold as a best seller in the United States , initiated her breakthrough as a novelist . |
| 8 | The overthrow of the gentile constitution , which occurred as a result of technological changes , and as a result of the presence of the pairing family , is , according to Engels , the beginning of history as understood by Marx : the exploitation of one class by another and the resulting class struggles . |
| 9 | Table V shows the main changes which occurred as a result of this activity . |
| 10 | The term epeirogeny was in fact first coined by G. K. Gilbert in 1890 to describe the isostatic uplift which occurred as a result of the evaporation of Lake Bonneville in Utah in the western U S A ( leaving the much smaller Great Salt Lake of the present day ) . |
| 11 | According to the liquidator of the stockbroking firm which crashed as a result of the Farrington Stead failure , the summons for her arrest was issued late that year . |
| 12 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 13 | When Burma declined to become a member in 1948 — a decision which came as a most unpleasant surprise — comfort was taken in the thought that the voluntary nature of the Commonwealth was thereby confirmed . |
| 14 | That summer they decided on a trial separation , a decision which came as a ‘ thunderbolt , a terrible shock ’ to Charles , horrified both families and shocked the county set . |
| 15 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 16 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
| 17 | But it was the main bedroom which came as a surprise and a shock . |
| 18 | The Budget measures , which came as a surprise to many offshore operating companies , include a reduction from 75 to 50 per cent in petroleum revenue tax ( PRT ) on existing oilfields and abolition of the charge on new fields . |
| 19 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 20 | The decision to return to the gold standard , and to operate it , often necessitated the rise of interest rates which acted as a burden upon the exporting industries just as the reflation of the pound had made exporting more difficult . |
| 21 | She led the way , still chattering , down the long dark corridor which acted as a wind tunnel , and kept the rectory in a state of refrigeration during the winter months . |
| 22 | The rectangular piece of perspex which acted as a windscreen , provided little if any protection from the cold wind which was currently hitting him at sixty miles an hour . |
| 23 | Over one hundred youngsters benefited from the day , which acted as a pilot event for an innovative new programme designed by Mercedes-Benz and the Lawn Tennis Association Trust to provide selected schools throughout the country with the opportunity to receive expert tuition from world class tennis players . |
| 24 | Its history was of minor significance in itself , although its activities did lead to a degree of confrontation which acted as a precursor to the political violence later to become associated with the BUF in the 1930s . |
| 25 | The poem takes its title from a ledge of rock off Cape Ann which acted as a seamark when Eliot , as a boy , used to sail out of Gloucester Harbour , and its first lines evoke the presence of the Mississippi which he had felt as a child in St Louis . |
| 26 | At the wider scale , Baker and Butlin point to two important influences which the physical environment had on the developing cultural mosaic based on farming patterns : its influence on the pace and timing of settlement and colonization , and its influence on the amount of wasteland available , which acted as a safety valve and meant that no provision for grazing need be made within the settlement itself ( 1973 , pp. 630–1 ) . |
| 27 | Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent . |
| 28 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 29 | Two truck loads of clean-up equipment were sent from the Wytch Farm oil spill base at Poole and Wytch Farm later sent a helicopter which acted as a general observation platform . |
| 30 | The Slovak National Council on June 23 elected Ivan Gasparovic as its chair and thus chair of the Council 's presidium which acted as a republican presidency ( there being no Slovak President ) . |