Example sentences of "which was [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 2 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 3 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |
| 4 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 5 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |