Example sentences of "and which was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written by two RAF officers this 127pp book provides an interesting ans well illustrated history of this airfield which was opened in 1938 , and which was home to such units as 14 OTU , 1668 HCU as well as various squadrons of Canberras , Victors and Vulcans . |
| 2 | This army , with German backing , and supported by the Iraqi Air Force , was defeated by the men of No.4 FTS , which was the unit stationed at Habbaniya , and which was equipped with Audax and Oxford aircraft . |
| 3 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 4 | What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu . |
| 5 | Horse-racing , a sport that had largely remained in the hands of the aristocracy and which was the object of criticism from bourgeois ideologues and socialists alike , grew rapidly in popularity . |
| 6 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 7 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 8 | In the early 1880s Newton opened his Hart Street I rooms in London for meetings of the St George 's Art Society , which he founded and which was designed ‘ for the discussion of Art and Architecture ’ . |
| 9 | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt , she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her . |
| 10 | The Treasury , which other departments felt had been engaging in the review only half-heartedly until mid-March ( and which was urged to take a greater role by Mr Major ) , was damned if it was going to see its VAT switch spent on anything that could be tagged ‘ son of poll tax ’ . |
| 11 | For one thing , the Labour Party leaders would not contemplate an alliance with the Communist Party , which they rightly feared was merely aiming to use Labour to gain political support and which was involved in almost needless violence against the supremely unimportant British fascists . |
| 12 | The fact that Karajan was a man of considerable good humour , with a fund of musical anecdotes and a talent for musical mimicry , does not obscure the existence of that more private self that Steiner claims to have glimpsed and which was also evident in Karajan 's long-standing preoccupation with skiing , flying , and sailing , activities not of some rich playboy , but of a person who since childhood had been uneasy with gregariousness and the urban life . |
| 13 | A WHITE daffodil with a long cup , which is still awaiting a name and which was raised by Mr Clive Postle , has won the prize for best bloom at this week 's Westminster Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 14 | Onslow 's has quite a scoop with the keys of Ernest Hemming , lamp-trimmer — each stamped Titanic and estimated at £4,000 ; it also has a doll found floating around the wreck and which was mistaken for the body of a child , at £1,500/3,000 . |
| 15 | For £7.50 , GP Services of Huntingdon , Cambs , offered to disclose details of a technique which had been ‘ tried , tested and proven ’ , which required no equipment or capital and which was ‘ currently being used throughout the UK ’ . |
| 16 | The Outer Isles Fishery Training Scheme operated by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries , and which was , in effect the pilot project for the very much more ambitious schemes of fishery development inaugurated by the Highlands and Islands Development Board , was dependent on funds contributed by the Macaulay ( Rhodesia ) Trust and the Highland Fund . |
| 17 | A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action . |
| 18 | As soldiers they wear the uniform given to them and which was made known to the enemy . ’ |
| 19 | Instead , people either reached for the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as a model , which had been constituted quite differently and which was , as a result , very misleading in a number of different ways , or , hardly less disastrously , for the murky concept of the ‘ Volk ’ . |
| 20 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 21 | Members also felt the constitution was counter-productive , especially when capital projects called for an injection of cash over which they would have no control , and which was seen as improving someone else 's investment . |
| 22 | Prudent housekeeping kept purchases down to one horse ( £10 ) , a hay mower , some tools , and a box number advertisement in The Times seeking new member and which was moderately successful . |
| 23 | This new building is the detached cottage used by the Ladies since the 1950 's and which was previously Mr. and Mrs. Pedler 's home . |
| 24 | In the event , it was May 1983 , a year later , before the issue was again put to the members and then in an appropriately revised form which took account of the above amendment , but also revised the overall approach to the issue , and which was probably the better for it . |
| 25 | A favourite outing was to the nearby medieval castle of Pierrefonds , which the Emperor had given his wife as a present and which was being restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 26 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
| 27 | He made his partner change roles and positions constantly , every few minutes , until they hardly knew which body was which , which was giving and which was taking . |
| 28 | They did this by adopting the Jamaican music which the black communities in South East London had brought from their homeland and which was the popular music of the Rude Boys . |
| 29 | I could no longer tell which way was up and which was down . |
| 30 | Coupled with ‘ God ’ went something else that I could never find , and which was much talked about . |