Example sentences of "[noun pl] which was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chamberlain was deputed to handle all negotiations in his absence , and in particular to attend a meeting of the leaders of the three parties which was fixed for that same Tuesday . |
| 2 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 3 | An agreement on family reunions and the exchange of art troupes which was reached at Red Cross talks in October 1989 [ for which see p. 36975 ] broke down Nov. 27 when the South Koreans refused to allow the revolutionary opera " The Flower Girl " to be performed in Seoul , the South Korean capital , saying that its content was political and contrary to Red Cross principles [ see p. 37041 ] . |
| 4 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 5 | WoodMac also forecast a switch in exploration funds to other countries as a result of the removal of an incentive to re-invest profits from oilfields which was introduced in 1983 . |
| 6 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 7 | In 1977 HMI published a report Ten Good Schools which was followed by Rutter et al 's ( 1979 ) celebrated work Fifteen Thousand Hours . |
| 8 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 9 | The CBD was distinguished by a dominance of shops and offices which was followed by an area of mixed or changed land-use , showing signs of transition which was difficult to give a name to . |
| 10 | It follows the discovery of a shortfall in the Anfield books which was spotted by the club accountant . |
| 11 | Rogger points out that any moves towards a representative democracy were blocked by the negative attitude of representative institutions which was shared by the Tsar . |
| 12 | It was £500 in one pounds notes which was given to my husband in exchange for a car . |
| 13 | One such occasion caused Leslie Edwards to write a letter to The Times which was published on 18 September , 1937 . |
| 14 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 15 | Failure of his government 's economic programme fully to embrace market principles was also criticized , and prompted a vote of no confidence by nationalist deputies which was defeated on Oct. 10 . |
| 16 | Law and order became increasingly to be used as symbol for the moral and economic decay of the country and this was reinforced by the use of the latent racism of the working class in the publicity given to muggers which was presented at least implicitly as a black crime ( see Hall et al . |
| 17 | But the Opposition Chief Whip is continuing the fight to regain its licence to certify steers castrated bulls which was withdrawn at six weeks ' notice . |
| 18 | The normal average dietary calcium intake was 140 mg/24 hours which was doubled to 280 mg/24 hours in the above specified groups by the addition of calcium lactate to the drinking water . |
| 19 | This was part of the policy of attempting to involve the people in minor administrative activities which was implemented after the death of Stalin . |
| 20 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 21 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 22 | A sample was finally constructed by using the files of a local vicar and a list of West Indian parents which was obtained from a local junior school . ’ |
| 23 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 24 | The visit was concluded with a question and answer session about Wood Group 's activities , workshops and companies which was chaired by Wood Group Engineering Contractors divisional manager , Ivor Harries . |
| 25 | The statute only vests in the agency ( with some exceptions ) the state-owned assets of such former state enterprises which have already been converted into companies ; further , such part of the equity of other companies which was vested in the state before coming into force of the statute of conversion and which are still in state ownership ; finally , assets remaining in state ownership after the liquidation of state enterprises and any other assets which are from time to time vested in the agency by separate legislation or a resolution of parliament . |
| 26 | Subsequently , in the early part of 1987 , the UK government unilaterally imposed quotas on Eastern bloc imports which was followed by the implementation of a minimum price restriction by the EC . |
| 27 | The aim of the seminar is to act as a follow-up on the Consultation on the Practice of Communication Education in Theological Seminaries which was held in Seoul , Korea , in 1989 . |
| 28 | There was a firm 6×4 cm swelling to the right of the midline scar in the adbomen which was presumed to be the recurrent tumour . |
| 29 | According to a careful investigation of such matters which was published in the West in the late Brezhnev years , Soviet global influence was at its height in the 1950s , when about 14 per cent of the world 's nations could be described as Soviet-aligned ; by the late 1970s , however , the total had fallen to 12 per cent . |
| 30 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |