Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk was illustrated by slides which showed both wild flowers and their romantic settings . |
| 2 | The union request for recognition was referred to ACAS which sent questionnaires to union members at Grunwick 's but not to the rest of the workers because the employers would not supply ACAS with their names and addresses . |
| 3 | The 1905 Convention was considered at the Sixth Session of the Conference in 1924 when a Protocol was agreed permitting accession by States not represented in 1905 and some further work was set in hand which led to the publication in 1929 of a proposed revised Convention . |
| 4 | Following detailed studies to evaluate the feasibility of developing the field , a plan was compiled by LOPL which included drilling up to 11 more wells in the central area of the field . |
| 5 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 6 | A marketing plan was put in place which helped reduce dependence on the naval base , Faslane ; targeted other sources of revenue ; improved the hotel 's profile and instituted an effective staff training programme . |
| 7 | The campaign was marred by violence which intensified as the election drew near . |
| 8 | Hence , from one aspect the fascist regimes in Europe ( and the equally authoritarian , nationalistic and militaristic regime in Japan ) can be regarded as the means by which a modernizing 'revolution from above' was effected in societies which had not experienced successful bourgeois democratic revolutions ( Moore , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried . |
| 10 | But in practice , not only did the courts accept Parliament 's power to make new laws , but a legal distinction was made between statutes which declared old law and those which created new law . |
| 11 | Because this study was designed to facilitate the interpretation of recognition results a fundamental distinction was made between information which would be shared by all exemplars of a particular junction ( fixed information ) and that which could potentially differ between exemplars ( variable information ) , the assumption was that the fixed information would be relatively unimportant to recognition performance . |
| 12 | We would wish a second investigator to consider whether his predecessor took the right route , whether all the relevant leads were followed , whether sufficient attention was paid to evidence which was inconsistent with the working hypothesis , and whether the methods used ( particularly in interrogation ) did not distort the result . |
| 13 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 14 | The bedchamber was hung with silks which were so fine that they bruised if something brushed against them . |
| 15 | The danger of inflation was underlined by figures which showed that there were 15,400 million lei more in circulation on May 21 , 1990 , than at the same time in 1989 . |
| 16 | A new range of hydrogen generators was introduced by Jun-Air which can produce between 200 and 1600 ml min -1 from the six models in the range . |
| 17 | In 1955 Khrushchev and Bulganin made a visit to Belgrade in an attempt to secure a reconciliation , and the following year a Soviet-Yugoslav communiqué was signed in Moscow which brought the dispute to an end . |
| 18 | Simultaneously mythic and painstakingly real ( ‘ the giant Exxon sign/That brings this fair city light ’ ) , his cityscape was inhabited by characters whose lives were condensed into their names , a few gestures or scraps of dialogue ( ‘ Hey , Eddie , can you lend me a few bucks … |
| 19 | Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore . |
| 20 | Finally , the £500 judges ' discretionary prize was divided between WaterAid which was commended for a coordinating cover and back-page tear off donation slip and telephone counsellors The Samaritans whose report was praised for spot colouring vital statistics and a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it . |
| 21 | Her daughter was taken to America which is a European Convention country ( there are 16 in all ) . |
| 22 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 23 | The interior of the stable was lit by lanterns which hung from the rafters above the central passage . |
| 24 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |
| 25 | The floor was made of wood which had been brushed with gold leaf so that every knot and line of the grain created a ripple in a seeming golden pool . |
| 26 | To open a tin working required capital and this capital was provided by Roberts whose interest was repaid — in tin . |
| 27 | Here an attack was launched on neo-Malthusianism which was considered by its critics to be politically conservative and which , it was claimed , shifted the burden of blame for underdevelopment to those with the largest families . |
| 28 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 29 | Carrington learned Dutch under a young lecturer from Manchester who was brilliant , and his radio and cipher training was handled by men whose accents were extremely low , while their skill levels were precisely the opposite . |
| 30 | Thus in ordinary custody disputes between father and mother the status quo often dictates the answer which the court has to give , notwithstanding that the status was achieved in circumstances which the court may regard with disfavour . |