Example sentences of "which was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was kind of Gran ; but as she went into the office and picked up the phone , she was aware of an unusual pang of nerves . |
| 2 | Written by two RAF officers this 127pp book provides an interesting ans well illustrated history of this airfield which was opened in 1938 , and which was home to such units as 14 OTU , 1668 HCU as well as various squadrons of Canberras , Victors and Vulcans . |
| 3 | Old memories die hard , especially in a town like Tromsø which was home to a large contingent of the German navy . |
| 4 | In Bristol , Augustine Birrell , MP for Bristol North , remembered that Henry Arnold Thomas , pastor of Highbury Congregational Chapel , which was home to the Wills family , was said to ‘ cut a greater figure on the Downs than the Bishop of the Diocese ’ . |
| 5 | Mike the Rhodesian and I were on ‘ corvée ’ duties one afternoon and were carrying the dustbins out to the shed behind the cookhouse where all the rubbish was deposited , which was home to a lot of stray cats and some aggressive rats . |
| 6 | The Wallingfen court in the Vale of York set an upper limit for animals on the common in 1636 which was way above the actual carrying capacity of the land . |
| 7 | The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings . |
| 8 | His advocacy is not surprising : he never abandoned the interventionism which was part of the conventional wisdom in the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 9 | Kennedy 's advisers opposed this solution because it would again single out Britain amongst the European states for special treatment ; it would fuel de Gaulle 's dislike for NATO ; and it would make Britain 's entry into Europe , which was part of the State Department 's policy , even less likely . |
| 10 | He told them that Iraq had 60 divisions ready for war , compared with his enemies ' 18 , and would therefore win any battle for Kuwait , which was part of Iraq 's ‘ body and soul ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Good afternoon , The Haven hotel , ’ Susan said into the telephone , waving to her as Maggie left Reception through a wooden flap which was part of the counter . |
| 12 | To the rear of the main block , adjacent to the old railway bridge , is a wide stone arch which was part of the installation . |
| 13 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 14 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 15 | An Ulsterman and pre-war Irish rugby international , Paddy had been in No. 11 ( Scottish ) Commando , which was part of Layforce . |
| 16 | The snowy owl , which was part of this group in the skeletal elements analysis , is slightly removed from it in Fig. 3. |
| 17 | A promontory on the south side of Sydney 's waterfront which was part of John 's 190 acre estate is still called Piper Point and streets in the district are named to his memory . |
| 18 | Oxford Instruments is to buy the Cambridge-based thin films group , which was part of the now defunct Cryogenic Consultants company . |
| 19 | It was not a conscious avoidance of the Debtors Prison but the more positive , good-humoured attitude which was part of Making Your Bed and Lying On It . |
| 20 | ‘ He gave me so much — quite apart from sexual fulfilment , which was part of it , and a very exciting and wonderful part because he taught me so much about sex . ’ |
| 21 | The big cat , which was part of the cargo , attacked Captain Gene Cameron , 51 , in a German port . |
| 22 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 23 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 24 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 25 | At fifteen , when I could legally go out to work , I got a Saturday job which paid for my clothes ( except my school uniform , which was part of the deal , somehow ) . |
| 26 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 27 | The Californian court trying Patricia Hearst for bank robbery was asked to hear stylometric evidence to help determine whether she composed the propaganda for the Symbionese Liberation Army which was part of the case against her . |
| 28 | I can illustrate this by referring to a poem which was part of a racist leaflet circulated in Haringey during the 1987 election . |
| 29 | A high sugar intake , which was part of Alan 's diet , greatly increases the loss of chromium in urine . |
| 30 | She came up with the placement centre at Heenan House , which was part of the St Joseph 's Hospice for the Dying in Hackney . |