Example sentences of "which was [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level .
2 The Mayor said : ‘ It was a domestic tiff which was blown up out of all proportion .
3 Evidence of just how viscous the lavas are , and how great the forces involved are , was provided by the great spine which was pushed up out of the vent of Mt Pelee , reaching over 300 metres in height .
4 Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland .
5 It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War .
6 The other models are the liquid-cooled Cray C94 , the eight-processor liquid-cooled Cray C98 , and an expansion of the 16-processor Cray C916 system , which was introduced way back in November 1991 and has up to now been marketed as the Cray Y-MP C90 .
7 The other models are the liquid-cooled Cray C94 , the eight-processor liquid-cooled Cray C98 , and an expansion of the 16-processor Cray C916 system , which was introduced way back in November 1991 and has up to now been marketed as the Cray Y-MP C90 .
8 Polly recognised Nathan 's insistence on her learning how to navigate as an attempt to keep the lid on a situation which was escalating rapidly out of control .
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