Example sentences of "which was [num ord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience of recession in the 1980s has redirected our attention to a longer-term temporal pattern in economic events , which was first applied to nineteenth century international change . |
| 2 | It is a hardy , thrifty , long-lived mountain breed which was first recognised in 1856 ; a breed society was formed in 1895 and a herdbook established in 1926 . |
| 3 | Post-war the variety of designs continued with the Yak–12 high-wing utility monoplane which was first flown in 1947 and appeared in several variants , culminating in the Yak–12A of 1957 , over 1,000 of which were built . |
| 4 | The hunt for the cause of the disease , which was first diagnosed among male homosexuals , has now labelled as a prime suspect some unknown blood-borne virus . |
| 5 | Minutes of the Port Ellen News and Reading Room , the Minute Book 1928–1969 of the Islay Branch of the National Farmers ' Union , extracts , where there is mention of Islay or Jura , taken from the Minutes of the Presbytery of Kintyre , registers and minute books from a number of Islay churches , school magazines and the complete issue of the community newspaper " Ileach " which was first printed in 1973 . |
| 6 | Wood assisted Stephenson in the development of his safety lamp , which was first tested in 1815 . |
| 7 | These were the earliest known fatalities from AIDS , which was first recognized in 1981 . |
| 8 | His career as a playwright began with three one-act plays , The Typists , The Postman ( later changed to The Tiger ) and A Simple Kind of Love Story , which was first produced by expatriate American Charles Marowitz at his tiny Open Space Theatre in London and then off-Broadway . |
| 9 | In July 1989 the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher abolished the National Dock Labour Scheme which was first introduced in 1947 . |
| 10 | This movement is in fact based on a theme from Giovanni Paisiello 's opera Le Gare Generose , which was first performed in 1786 . |
| 11 | Rostand had grown rich on the royalties from his astonishing verse drama , Cyrano de Bergerac , which was first performed in 1897 and so successfully that its author was reportedly made a knight of the Légion d'Honneur on the opening night in between the fourth and fifth acts . |
| 12 | The solicitors ' governing body is the Law Society , which was first established in 1825 . |
| 13 | The solicitors ' governing body is the Law Society , which was first established in 1825 . |
| 14 | The solicitors ' governing body is the Law society , which was first established in 1825 . |
| 15 | The solicitors ' governing body is the Law Society , which was first established in 1825 . |
| 16 | These include Alzheimers disease , which was first described in 1907 , multiple brain infarctions ( small strokes in the brain ) , drug toxity and Huntington 's Chorea . |
| 17 | ‘ The artists resolved to hold the Sarajevan Festival of the Arts , which was first held in 1984 at the Winter Olympics , as a gesture towards civilised life and civic identity . |
| 18 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 19 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 20 | Their emphasis on the responsibility of the theologian towards the Bible , and on the need for a disciplined hermeneutic which will allow the Bible itself to speak , will be found again , albeit much modified , in the thought of Karl Barth ; as too will Archibald Hodge 's principle that ‘ Christ and his work is the centre around which all Christian theology is brought into order , ’ as he put it on page 16 of the 1878 edition of his Outlines of Theology , which was first published in 1860 , and , together with his father 's Systematic Theology ( 1871 ) , is a classic textbook of the Princeton method . |
| 21 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 22 | This remains the case , despite the Further Professional Option : Teaching a Community Language , which was first offered in 1986 as a part of the PGCE course at the University of London Institute of Education . |
| 23 | I mean , the real problem is that the rating system is out of date , it 's based on a rating valuation which was last updated in 1973 and has n't been updated since . |