Example sentences of "which [pers pn] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the administration referred to is not of a governmental nature and the other legislation to which I was referred is of no assistance . |
| 2 | I know now that there is every reason for joy at the thought of the day on which I was given life . |
| 3 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 4 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 5 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 6 | The language in which I was trained : spoken in despair of priestliness ( our italics ) … |
| 7 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 8 | Incidentally , the old man wrote Cathy a letter which I was charged to pass over unopened . |
| 9 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) , the hon. Member for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) touched on aspects of British Rail to which I was tempted to respond . |
| 11 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 12 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 13 | Not that any of my family could be that certain of the exact day on which I was born , on account of the fact that my old man had spent the night in gaol and my mother had died even before I drew breath . |
| 14 | I explained again : about my job description , custom and practice and my right to do the work for which I was employed . |
| 15 | I ca n't recall the routes up which I was dragged , but what I do remember is strolling back to the car under one of those hazy , purple , Peak District sunsets , contentedly weary and glowing with achievement — only to find that thieves had struck . |
| 16 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 17 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 18 | I now return to the computational work in which I was engaged during these years . |
| 19 | I had suddenly lost interest in everything except the huge , wonderful rocking-horse , on which I was placed , reins in my hands . |
| 20 | All round the main building were wooden huts , and Hut 6 , to which I was posted , was a large one about sixty feet long , divided by plasterboard partitions into several rooms , all of which contained the simplest and most basic furniture . |
| 21 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 22 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 23 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 24 | One of erm questions which I was asked to address on this occasion was er in connection with the obtaining of new work was why erm do n't we er give financial incentives to er if they are successful in bringing in new work . |
| 25 | One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work . |
| 26 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 27 | It was in 1972 , after I had trekked to and from Rhodesia on several occasions , and the mission in which I was involved appeared to be a triumphant success , that I received a letter from Ted Heath , who asked whether it would be acceptable to me to receive a CH ( Companion of Honour ) . |
| 28 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 29 | One incident in which I was involved followed a report from the pilot of an incoming merchant ship entering the river Thames . |
| 30 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |