Example sentences of "which was [adj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view is supported by a number of independent inquiries , the most recent of which was that undertaken by the House of Commons Energy Select Committee in 1987 : |
| 2 | The first is the ‘ life course ’ approach which was first developed by sociologists , but has recently been taken up by some historians . |
| 3 | His career as a playwright began with three one-act plays , The Typists , The Postman ( later changed to The Tiger ) and A Simple Kind of Love Story , which was first produced by expatriate American Charles Marowitz at his tiny Open Space Theatre in London and then off-Broadway . |
| 4 | Another important early pre-packaged product was tea , which was first sold by JS in 1903 . |
| 5 | One hypothesis , which was first advanced by Deschner in 1975 and has recently been reproposed by Rozen , is that the same type of proliferative anomalies are also present in the second subgroup but in a localised rather than diffuse form . |
| 6 | Civil servants from several departments are now re-examining the scheme , which was first suggested by a committee chaired by John Alvey of British Telecom . |
| 7 | This is graphically expressed by the phrase ‘ intimacy at a distance ’ which was first used by Rosenmayr and Kockeis ( 1963 ) and applied to the British context by Townsend ( 1957 ) , in his study of the family life of old people . |
| 8 | The professorship , which was last held by the late Professor Martin Harrison , is one of the 12 established chairs under the Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores , complementing the Lincoln Professorship of Classical ( Greek ) Archaeology and Art . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 10 | The magistrates point to the problematical definition of crimes against humanity , which was last modified by the Court of Cassation in 1985 to clarify the Klaus Barbie case . |