Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 2 | The restrictions governing such use which were shortly to be articulated by Gierek , Gomulka 's successor , provide the charter and justification for the military 's conduct in 1981 : |
| 3 | Holden and Holford 's City of London Plan put the seal on the principles of precinct planning and the canalization of traffic , crucial aspects of redevelopment which were soon to be seen in Coventry , Plymouth and elsewhere . |
| 4 | The Mirror revealed the appalling contradiction of so-called ‘ slimmers ' ’ meals which were up to 44 per cent fat . |
| 5 | In contrast , the plots at Penkridge , which were up to 30 m ( 100 ft ) deep , may well have been employed as gardens or animal pens . |
| 6 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |
| 7 | As well as accepting the Dutch theologian 's views on salvation , these English Arminians , or Laudians , exhibited a number of other conservative theological and liturgical positions , which were not to be found in continental Arminianism . |
| 8 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 9 | He was forcing her to be careful of what she said ; setting up areas which were not to be talked about . |
| 10 | There were a number of warnings from RSGB which were included , and which were later to be added into the company prospectus . |
| 11 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 12 | He brought control and organization to a large labour force , which was ultimately to their benefit as well as his own . |
| 13 | Rain perched on a folded piece of carpet which was presumably to be her seat . |
| 14 | The home of the Arts Lab which was later to be re-named ‘ Growth ’ |
| 15 | For the District it was a period of the funded-tutor enterprise which was later to be challenged through the gradual development of a new regional policy by the Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board . |
| 16 | Scheckter and Depailler made it a double for the Tyrrell six-wheeler ( which was later to be banned , like many another intelligent innovation ) , Niki came third and Hunt limped in fifth , nearly a minute off the pace . |
| 17 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |
| 18 | Suger devoted many years to rebuilding the great abbey church ( in i style which was later to be hailed as the prototype of Gothic architecture ) to make it a fit royal mausoleum , as well as a place of worship in which mere men could obtain a brief insight into the grandeur that surrounded the king of kings in heaven . |
| 19 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 20 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 21 | In Malone , the Court was asked to recognize a limited common-law right to privacy whereas in Kennedy the Court was asked to take the much bolder step and apply in this sensitive area an implied constitutional right to privacy which was not to be found in the Constitution . |
| 22 | TANU 's campaign — and the adoption by Nyerere and his ministers of the Swahili language for most great state occasions — gave the language a status it had not previously enjoyed ; but secondary education , the University College in Dar es Salaam , Parliament , the higher law courts and other important institutions still used English , which was not to be easily displaced . |
| 23 | Capetian claims to the exercise of sovereignty evoked a hostile response from the magnates , led by the duke of Aquitaine and count of Flanders , which was not to be stilled by the death of Philip the Fair in 1314 . |
| 24 | It gave the house of Foix some claim to the succession in Bigorre and , when Esquivat died without heirs in 1283 , a conflict broke out which was not to be resolved until 1307 . |
| 25 | By 1721 Russia had twenty-one permanent diplomatic missions in foreign countries ( including one in Pekin and another in Bokhara ) a number which was not to be exceeded during the remainder of the century . |
| 26 | Codes and cyphers still gave some protection against this , and in one or two cases at least cryptography was carried in the seventeenth century to a level which was not to be surpassed for generations to come . |
| 27 | When the tsar died at the beginning of 1725 there were twelve Russian diplomatic missions at work in different European capitals , a figure which was not to be significantly exceeded for the rest of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Human rights groups and local people said that the dead were the victims of a massacre in December 1981 by the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion , which was yet to be disbanded . |
| 29 | Well the age group was always just school age which was up to fourteen . |
| 30 | Wycliffe sipped his coffee , which was just to his liking , and stretched his legs to the fire in a mood of expansive goodwill . |