Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of lost time accidents occurring on site during 1992 was 14 including 6 which were reportable to the HSE . |
| 2 | In any case , many royal clerks would see no sharp distinction between royal and church business or between clerical taxation and clerical reform , both of which were relevant to the well-being of the church : for many clergy , as indeed for Winchelsey , the solvency of the crown was part of their responsibility for the Christian commonwealth . |
| 3 | Direct communications which were relevant to the customer 's situation were highly welcome . |
| 4 | Eventually it was realised that a number of other conclusions could be drawn from the analysis which were relevant to the development or selection of a computer system , such as : |
| 5 | In 1718 , for example , the Duke of Montrose , as chancellor of the University of Glasgow , was seeking a gentleman to collect the teinds of Drymen , which were payable to the university . |
| 6 | Hyperpolarizing to more negative potentials , to activate more uptake , generated larger [ H + ] o changes ( Fig. 1 c ) which were proportional to the uptake current activated ( Fig. 1 d ) . |
| 7 | The main features of the employment relationship in the major ports were broadly similar and created conditions which were favourable to the development of national trade union action of both official and unofficial kinds ; but there were significant differences in the nature of industrial relations . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 9 | Can we go back to the , very quickly to , er to the review of the design of the light fittings in the fifties and sixties , you mentioned the pleated paper ones which were close to the ceiling |
| 10 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 11 | The cats caught the mice , which otherwise would destroy the nests of the bees , which were crucial to the fertilization of certain plants . |
| 12 | ‘ Then I 'll get some , ’ she decided on the spot , and embarked on a small spending spree , ending up with a bottle of Becherovka , a bottle of plum brandy called Slivovitz and a presentation box of some sweet wafer biscuits called Oplatky which were traditional to the area . |
| 13 | In other words , the project probably did not change schools , but change may have been most likely to occur in schools which were open to the innovation and to the ideas of equality presented by the project . |
| 14 | George won the English championship for the mile and the four miles in 1879 and the same distances at the inaugural Amateur Athletic Association championships , which were open to the world in the following year . |
| 15 | This first stage produced a smaller matrix of explanatory factors which were analogous to the beta of the CAPM . |
| 16 | The reporting of the paratroopers ' case focused on events which were intrinsic to the court process . |
| 17 | No financial commitments would be made by the Institute and common standards of embalming would be insisted on which were acceptable to the Institute . |
| 18 | A small neat iron bed with a shabby well-washed coverlet had one lumpy pillow and sheets which were hard to the touch . |
| 19 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 20 | In accepting the Crown 's application , Lord Coulsfield said that the general rule of law was that evidence which was relevant to the issue was admissible unless excluded by some peremptory rule of law . |
| 21 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 22 | On the other hand there was an increase in overall activity rates between 1971 and 1981 ( Table 3.6 ) , which was due to the increase ( of 692,000 ) in working females . |
| 23 | The pain , which was due to the pressure of the cancer on a nerve , was entirely relieved by the shrinking of the growth , to the extent at which it caused no further suffering . |
| 24 | The fragile social equilibrium between the toleration and segregation of marginal social behaviour which was necessary to the survival of the very poor in the working-class community was almost certainly upset by the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Acts . |
| 25 | After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other . |
| 26 | After eradication of H pylori the median serum gastrin in the duodenal ulcer patients fell to 28 ( range 12–65 ) ( p<0.02 v before eradication ) , which was similar to the value in the H pylori negative healthy volunteers . |
| 27 | After eradication of H pylori the median gastrin concentration in response to gastrin releasing peptide 40 pmol/kg/h in the nine duodenal ulcer patients fell to 68 ( range 23–115 ) ( p<0.02 v before eradication ) , which was similar to the value in the H pylori negative healthy volunteers . |
| 28 | The choice , according to such critics , has been either to increase taxes to cover the public spending for the services — which was contrary to the government 's tax-cutting policies — or to reduce the scale of state provision of welfare . |
| 29 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 30 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |