Example sentences of "which [pron] [adv] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show was called The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( which I later learned was in honour of the blue-nose lady who 's always sounding off about too much sex in the media ) . |
| 2 | Haseley Crawford was trying to intimidate everybody , which I later learned was his usual pre-race gambit . |
| 3 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 4 | For years , it was supposed to be crucial to bonding for baby to open its eyes on Mum and Dad in the first instants of life , which I always thought was a lot of toffee . |
| 5 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 6 | I was aware of your love of language and literature and the involvement which you obviously felt was contagious , and came over to me as being very real . |
| 7 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 8 | The soft drinks which she also made were good sellers during the summer months , costing only 2½d and even then , 1d was allowed upon return of the bottle . |
| 9 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 10 | The only country house poem which she certainly read is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to Burlington ’ . |
| 11 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 12 | In Chic Fashions v. Jones ( C.A. , 1968 ) Lord Denning said that the police could seize , not only the items specified in the warrant , but also anything which they reasonably believed was that item , anything which would lead to the identification of the item , any other goods stolen from the victim of the offence being investigated and anything else stolen by the suspect . |
| 13 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 14 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 15 | The kinds of survival skills which they now required were not ones they could learn from teachers , parents or Careers Officers . |
| 16 | For one thing , the Labour Party leaders would not contemplate an alliance with the Communist Party , which they rightly feared was merely aiming to use Labour to gain political support and which was involved in almost needless violence against the supremely unimportant British fascists . |
| 17 | What Durkheim did was transform or recontextualise the official statistics , which he well knew were less than satisfactory in many respects , produced by officials for administrative purposes , and relate them to his theoretical concerns . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 19 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 20 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 21 | Selkirk talked to the captain for a while in a language which he later explained was Erse , the tongue of the Isles , before taking Corbett back to the cabin . |
| 22 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 23 | Wordsworth 's painting would have been ‘ a mine of peaceful years , etc. ’ ( lines 21–32 ) ; that is , it would have represented his youthful ideas about life , which he really thought were true , though he now sees that they were deluded ( line 29 ) . |
| 24 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |
| 25 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 26 | Less than three years on he is one of ‘ us ’ in the establishment and happy to acknowledge that the reorganisation for which he stridently called is , albeit belatedly , being carried out . |
| 27 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 28 | During the Sunday a demonstration freight train was run in the capable hands of Class 14 with TOPS number 14029 ( D9529 ) which it never carried being withdrawn from BR operating stock in 1968 after just three years in service and before TOPS renumbering took place in 1972 . |