Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of yesterday 's public sector pay settlements , which were particularly welcomed by teachers , will my right hon. Friend give the House some broad indication of just how many teachers will now be earning more than £20,280 a year ? |
| 2 | Among the foreign objects , which were either made by Mesopotamians living at Susa or seized as war booty , is the stele of Naramsin ( 2254–2218 BC ) , a stone relief showing the Akkadian king conquering a frontier tribe in a mountainous landscape , one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art . |
| 3 | In 1968 Gow and Page followed up their first volume by bringing out Hellenistic Epigrams : the Garland of Philip , again in two volumes ; this time Gow was primarily responsible for the 650 epigrams which were either attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica or left over as being either his work or that of Antipater of Sidon . |
| 4 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 5 | His writings on art include several reviews of the Paris Salons , which were either published in booklets or in journals such as the Revue française . |
| 6 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 7 | A design often found on enssi rugs , which were traditionally used as door-hangings in the nomad 's yurt ( tent ) ; it is quite common for any rug woven in this design to be referred to as an enssi , or a Bokhara with an enssi design . |
| 8 | There is a possibility that dun Galloways , which were traditionally fattened on turnips in East Anglia in large numbers in the nineteenth century , contributed to the now extinct Suffolk Dun which was part-originator of the Red Poll . |
| 9 | Handicap is defined in terms of symptoms which were traditionally attributed to hearing loss . |
| 10 | While intellectuals secured most publicity for their support of Spanish Republicanism , the International Brigade drew many of its members from areas which were traditionally Left , particularly Scotland and South Wales . |
| 11 | As a consciousness-raiser , Stadtverkehr im Wandel was splendid stuff , a cascade of ideas and surprises , supported by well-selected examples which were attractively illustrated . |
| 12 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in a accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is inhibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |
| 13 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in an accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is prohibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |
| 14 | I think those were the ones which were most influenced by … the paintings he did between 1926 and about 1932 , were n't they ? |
| 15 | Yet ‘ Wordsworth was of opinion that posterity will value most those Lyrical Ballads which were most laughed at ’ — ( Crabb Robinson ) . |
| 16 | These documents were discussed by the whole staff , by governors , and finally by the Senior Management Team , who proposed changes which were again submitted to staff for their views . |
| 17 | In his writings of the early 1980s , which were strongly influenced by the Polish crisis , Butenko argued that Soviet-type societies did not eliminate ‘ contradictions ’ , in particular those between the sectional interests of managers and the working people they directed . |
| 18 | Another force underlying his policies , one which helps to explain his ready acceptance of ideas of limited monarchy and some degree of representative government , was aristocratic conservative influences , derived particularly from the Habsburg province of Carinthia and the traditions of its estates , which were strongly represented in his entourage . |
| 19 | Further evidence that court musicians played more than one instrument in the Opera is indicated by the posts of the grand hautbois de Roy , such as those of Jean Rousselet and Guillaume de Granville , which were generally given as ‘ hautbois et violon de la chambre du Roy et sa grande Ecurie ’ |
| 20 | The same was true of farms and leases , which were generally authorized by the duchy council . |
| 21 | The same was true of farms and leases , which were generally authorized by the duchy council . |
| 22 | Certainly Freud was critical of the religious versions of reality which were generally accepted among the middle classes in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America . |
| 23 | In 1981 , 39 per cent of West Indians and 41 per cent of Pakistanis were in semi-and unskilled jobs , which were generally located in inner-city areas — the very areas that have suffered the most dramatic and sustained decline in employment in the past 20 years . |
| 24 | Although proposals for secret ballots and annual elections came to nothing , a Triennial Bill was passed into law in 1694 , whilst in 1696 Acts were passed to prevent electoral charges and expenses ( to keep the price of a contest within the gentry 's means ) and to prevent local changes in the established franchise ( which were generally thought to be made to the Court 's advantage ) . |
| 25 | In 1903 the Persian government stopped the import of these aniline dyes and brought in laws , which were strictly enforced , ordering dye-houses found using them to be burnt to the ground . |
| 26 | Results in 1992 reflected significant losses in the cracking and polymers markets , which were partly offset by profit improvement in specialities , bulk chemicals and the US based businesses . |
| 27 | Eventually Gouzenko ran up debts of $153,000 which were partly settled by the sale of his book and film rights . |
| 28 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 29 | I did notice those remarks , which were widely reported this morning . |
| 30 | But the great majority of the class , including all those with typical saw-blade profiles ( graptoloids ) which were widely used in the dating of rocks , certainly lacked any kind of rooting structure . |