Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvised cooking utensils , the contents of the three-monthly clothing parcel , a few nails , bits of wood for shelves , were objects around which a sacred ring was drawn . |
| 2 | In Mansfield , for example , there were cases in which the clerk had put the conditions on the bail form even before the defendant 's solicitor had concluded his application for unconditional bail . |
| 3 | 923 were cases in which , in effect , the same rules were applied as would have been applicable regardless of any special relationship between surety and debtor . |
| 4 | These were cases in which the research interview could be carried out within one week of the team assessment , to minimise disagreement due to changes in the patients ' condition . |
| 5 | There were cases in which bishops were appointed in opposition to the will of a ruler , as when Dynamius , the patrician of Provence , appointed Marcellus as bishop of Uzès , despite royal support for Jovinus . |
| 6 | In his section of the AB , Hincmar attributed many crucial diplomatic and political activities to queens : since some were activities of which he approved , and only some queens were credited with such roles , it seems less likely that he obsessively exaggerated the nefarious influence of women ( though misogyny was in the air breathed by medieval churchmen ) than that he accurately portrayed a feature of Carolingian political life underrecorded by other contemporary writers . |
| 7 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 8 | Total disaster had been averted , channels of communication had been established , and there were foundations on which to build . |
| 9 | That evening and the next day there were speeches in which Sturge and Birmingham received particular notice . |
| 10 | Scarlet , when aware that she was consciously asking her friend for advice and support , felt guilty , for she had come to believe that advice and support were commodities for which you paid professionals , rather as you paid prostitutes for love and bought your vegetables instead of growing them yourself . |
| 11 | There were areas in which the more traditional , buccaneering type of entrepreneur still played a role . |
| 12 | This was largely because these were areas in which planning authorities were aimed at containing urban growth and preserving open country . |
| 13 | All the items listed in section 2 were matters in which truth or falsity could be established as a matter of fact . |
| 14 | Even as he spoke he knew that there were circumstances under which that argument would be invalid . |
| 15 | The House of Lords found that there were circumstances in which liability could be incurred for negligent misrepresentation by one person to another in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship between them . |
| 16 | But for Ulster 's evangelical Protestants , Catholic schools were places in which soul-damning heresies were transmitted , and to visit them was to recognize that Catholicism was a permitted variant of the Christian church . |
| 17 | Both , through a happy combination of theory and circumstances , were places in which enormous responsibilities were entrusted to a handful of inexperienced young men , who proved themselves on the job . |
| 18 | Though antislavery petitioning was a very prominent element of parliamentary petitioning in the years mentioned above , they were years in which petitioning as a habit grew remarkably . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , these were years in which ITV helped TV as a whole to acquire the stigma of an ‘ idiot box ’ . |
| 20 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 21 | He thought that the only things of which we could be really certain were things of which we were directly aware , that is , things in our own minds . |
| 22 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 23 | And how the show was now funded , how tightly Paul Lexington was running his budget , what his break-even percentage of audience was , indeed how much of the audience was made up of paying theatre-goers and how much of free seats ; all these were questions to which he knew he was unlikely to get answers . |
| 24 | Festooned on the garter were hooks from which depended a variety of shoplifted articles , watches , necklaces , rings , etc . |
| 25 | These were arrangements through which a stream of notes and CDs were issued . |
| 26 | Seven of these 11 were junctions at which the driver had simply gone straight ahead past a minor road . |
| 27 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
| 28 | She could never share his contentment , but there were ways in which to please and help her . |
| 29 | For example , when the Lucas workers were asked if there were ways in which it would be possible to protect workers on the North Sea oil pipelines from the hazards experienced there , they were conscious that their initial reaction was typical of the existing forms of science and technology : they thought of designing a robotic device which would eliminate the human being altogether . |
| 30 | There were ways by which all Homo sapiens could be reduced abridged — into a story , a kind of poem . |