Example sentences of "[noun sg] which was [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moustaine explained in a low , controlled voice that any violence which was going to be dished out would come from him and the Corporals . |
| 2 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 3 | In early December 1990 the Defence Department had released an internal report which cited " errors of judgment and failures of supervision " in the programme which was estimated to be at least $1,300 million over budget and 18 months behind schedule . |
| 4 | And this school , of which afterwards he could only remember that he was so homesick , must have helped the mind which was alleged to be backward and was not . |
| 5 | There was also a genuine fear that open conflict between the two sides of the industry must be avoided ( a fear which was shown to be not entirely illusory in a subsequent reorganisation , see pp. 194–5 below ) . |
| 6 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 7 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 8 | Coun David Messham said the money which was going to be used on the consultation process would be better spent advertising and promoting the outstations . |
| 9 | Full enactment of the emergency package required a supplementary budget which was expected to be submitted to the Diet in October or November 1992 . |
| 10 | In the medieval period these were seen as the custodians of an orthodoxy which was felt to be , if only potentially , challenged by self-authenticating mystical writings — a custodial role which seems to have lingered into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 12 | So they decided that once the christening party was in the hall which was gon na be three o'clock , they did n't stand much chance of erm |
| 13 | I think you 've assumed the answer to my question which was going to be to , addressed to Mr . |
| 14 | The 14th summit meeting of the heads of state of the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes was held in Gisenyi , Rwanda , on Aug. 1 ; discussions concentrated on regional security which was declared to be the " first objective " of the community . |
| 15 | At the time appointed for the auction the poor and the thrifty were left to man the ramparts ; everyone else crowded into the hall of the Residency which was considered to be the most suitable place for the proceedings . |
| 16 | This is in contrast to the sociology of knowledge which was designed to be non-evaluative and not to distinguish between false and true knowledge . |
| 17 | Royal Marines intercepted the vessel which was found to be carrying cargo which is banned under the United Nations measures . |
| 18 | There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example . |
| 19 | P C Raymond Hall was shot last November in North London when he tried to arrest Kelly and an accomplice who were in a lorry which was found to be packed with more than three tonnes of explosives . |
| 20 | It is a cultivated house with a large library ; it is a hospitable house , with spacious dining-room and emphatic portico ; it is devised , like Adam 's town houses , for ‘ an elaborate social parade , a parade which was felt to be the necessary accompaniment of active and responsible living ’ . |
| 21 | Jones gave the impression that he intended to write a paper which was going to be on the Mount Mauna Loa business with a bit on the neutron spectrum but it did not turn out that way at all . |
| 22 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
| 23 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 24 | On Nov. 27 President José Eduardo dos Santos announced the appointment of Marcolino Moco , secretary-general of the MPLA-PT , as Prime Minister to head a transitional government which was expected to be named on Dec. 1 . |
| 25 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 26 | Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate . |
| 27 | It was an arguably effective method of achieving both killing and disposal of the body — probably ensuring that the perpetrator remained undetected — to load the victim into an escape pod which was destined to be destroyed as soon as it was tracked by any of the platforms in orbit . |
| 28 | West of our site was the Caducius which was thought to be fairly easy to locate as it was marked on the Admiralty Chart . |
| 29 | It was completely against my dream of the Dwarf which was going to be this working-class paper . ’ |
| 30 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the notice was defective in form , on the grounds that it specified the documents by class and not individually , and that it contained certain other matter which was alleged to be ambiguous , but which I shall not quote , so as not to imperil anonymity . |