Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 2 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 3 | The second day , a Monday , saw the English team set a target of 185 to win , which was quite beyond the Frenchmen , who crashed to 26 all out . |
| 4 | He had managed to get a Beretta from a contact in Beirut which was now in the hands of the local police . |
| 5 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 6 | Having scoured Ulthuan Tethlis turned his attention to the Blighted Isle , which was still in the hands of the Witch King 's legions . |
| 7 | This , then , was the Jamaican norm , and when I came to Britain , which was still in the throes of the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ , I found the comparative indiscipline in schools difficult to cope with . |