Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adj] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance .
2 The pattern of law was provided by an ideal realm of geometrical shapes which were eternal and in a perfect state of absolute rest , like the real world of Parmenides .
3 If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) .
4 At the top of the next gradient , the line crossed over the railway by some timbered cottages and then turned right again and descended Ringstead Road which was narrow and on a steep gradient .
5 The doctor daughter of two doctors , her mother an Edinburgh Scot , she was well qualified to exercise her generosity , which was genuine and without end .
6 He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture .
7 The countryside was also viewed as having a ‘ natural ’ beauty which was self-perpetuating and under threat only from urban growth ( Robinson 1976 ) .
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