Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [adv] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 2 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 3 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 4 | The sulphur was burned off , thus producing a lead oxide which then had to be reduced leaving behind the pure lead . |
| 5 | This understanding of ‘ service ’ was crucial to the political practicality of citizenship which always depended upon being able to offer a reconciliation between ‘ personal rights ’ and , despite the vacillating liberal reinterpretations , ‘ the community ’ . |
| 6 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 7 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 8 | The government envisaged the mapping as being a simple , progressive operation which only required to be undertaken once , and the sooner the better . |
| 9 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 10 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 11 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
| 12 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 13 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |