Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition Members and all the organisations which were present at the proceedings were under the clear impression that all affirmative orders would be the subject of a separate debate so that these very important matters could be gone through line by line , if necessary . |
| 2 | For the rest , standards of literacy were offered which were appropriate to the needs of an industrial workforce . |
| 3 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 4 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 5 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 6 | There were elements in its thinking , however , which were akin to the Keynesians ' views . |
| 7 | In any case , O levels and A levels , examinations which were external to the schools ( though administered with increasing teacher-participation ) were there to maintain standards for those pupils who took them . |
| 8 | Her arms , which were bare to the elbows , were freckled and lightly downed in the artificial light . |
| 9 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 10 | It was suggested that the recognition results from the previous study might represent recognition being superior for films which were consistent with the subjects ’ expectations . |
| 11 | ‘ We tried to find visiting times which were suitable for the teachers concerned as well as the Subject Assessor , but it was n't always possible ’ . |
| 12 | On their side the Turks taxed when they could areas which were formally outside their territory but which were accessible to the border-guards which they , like the Habsburgs , maintained all along this hazy frontier . |
| 13 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 14 | The sharp rocks , or moraine , which were stuck in the glaciers caused them to scrape out the valleys much deeper . |
| 15 | And the forty-three forces in England and Wales now contain some formidable units , amalgamated out of the small borough , city , and county forces of the pre-1960s , many of which were prone to the whims of corrupt local politicians ( Simey 1988 ) . |
| 16 | He then headed two minority governments which were dependent on the Liberals , and a National Government which had a clear Conservative majority from October 1931 onwards . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 18 | Furthermore , he was attempting to construct a discourse which was impervious to the kinds of attack then being launched from inside and outside the discipline . |
| 19 | Without hearing the depth of argument which was available to the visitors in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 20 | It involved the co-ordination of a number of government departments which was extensive by the standards of nineteenth-century administration . |
| 21 | Hepatic bile was supersaturated in a similar way in patients with cholesterol gall stones and gall stone free patients , which was consistent with the findings of Carey et al and Gallinger et al . |
| 22 | Part of the deal with the management buy-out team was an option on ten per cent of the new company when it came to the market , no equivalent of which was possible under the terms of any of the outside bids . |
| 23 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |
| 24 | It is of interest to note that in seeking to systematize referral procedures Owen has begun to undermine the principle of flexibility which was one of the advantages such provision was thought to have over special schools . |
| 25 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 26 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer 's biography , which was one of the studies marking a sea-change in perceptions of Mozart , was published in 1977 . |
| 27 | I was then granted unconditional bail , in spite of the fact that the magistrates knew all about the cocaine , which was one of the reasons I thought I 'd never get a sentence . |
| 28 | That and the fees for Coroner 's post-mortems provided an income which was one of the reasons why his professional colleagues in the pathology department of the district general hospital both envied and resented his unpredictable absences on police work , the long days in court , the inevitable publicity . |
| 29 | Does the Minister agree that the system has been a total failure , which was one of the reasons why the link steering group used consultants to study the scheme ? |
| 30 | Which was one of the reasons she kept coming back . |