Example sentences of "which they [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 2 | Yes my Lord er you can see that er on page one in paragraph one two , he is a partner in a firm of he qualified as a solicitor in nineteen seventy three and became a partner in nineteen seventy six and since qualifying , so that er some twenty five years ago , he has dealt primarily with commercial and residential conveyancing and his contained in paragraph one and three er he 's been asked to advise on the extent of the duty of professional care and skill in relation to Mr financing the transaction and the extent to which they were under an obligation to advise Mr of any opportunity to rescind . |
| 3 | The Saturday Review in its now usual vein commented that although they were ‘ all men of various claims to distinction ’ , they hardly appeared competent to examine and assess the baffling array of entries with which they were to be confronted . |
| 4 | Winchester city councillor Major Dougie Covill requested that more pressure be put upon the county council to improve the footpaths and pavements which are in a very dangerous condition , and a Broad Street businessman wondered if residents were really aware of the changes going on in Broad Street , and the manner in which they were to be undertaken . |
| 5 | Testimony and documentary evidence would , they envisaged , be presented either to the forum court or obtained by Letter of Request in the foreign country in which they were to be found . |
| 6 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |
| 7 | The legislation was flawed not by the requirement of sanctions , claimed Bush , but by the rigid manner in which they were to be imposed , which would " harm US economic interests and provoke friendly countries who are essential to our efforts to resist Iraqi aggression " . |
| 8 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 9 | Summoning troops from the reserve would be easier if the formations in which they were to be deployed existed already . |
| 10 | It may be that in attempting to start team teaching without the experience of preliminary resource-based and other approaches and without a great deal of shared discussion and curriculum planning some schools have plunged their staffs into an experience for which they were by no means ready . |
| 11 | They struck up a relationship and there came a point at which they were in conversation with prostitutes . |
| 12 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 13 | In consequence , the Royal Messiah and the Priest Messiah would have had to be as closely linked as possible — which they were in Maccabean times , for example , when both were members of the same family . |
| 14 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 15 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |