Example sentences of "which [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 2 | The sub-divisions which arose were , in the main , based on where fans lived or went to school . |
| 3 | The discrepancies which arose were recorded separately on the assessment file . |
| 4 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 5 | Turning to the stay of proceedings , the principles which applied were enshrined in The Abidin Daver ( 1984 ) AC 398 and The Spiliada ( 1987 ) AC 460 . |
| 6 | The negotiations which followed were mainly handled by Alan Hayling . |
| 7 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 8 | The days which followed were among the most difficult in de Gaulle 's entire presidency . |
| 9 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 10 | The work really began when Kaufman noticed that if mouse eggs were exposed briefly to a 7 per cent solution of alcohol a significant proportion ( up to 20 per cent ) of the embryos which developed were aneuploid ( Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , vol 7 1 , p 139 ) . |
| 11 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 12 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 13 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 14 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 15 | The official messages and the students ' despair which resulted were familiar to those of previous periods of liberalisation and backlash . |
| 16 | The emission standards set for new vehicles gave due consideration to the technological feasibility and economic cost of compliance by the vehicle manufacturers and the standards which emerged were similar to those already adopted by California . |
| 17 | The bands which appeared were selected by the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) on behalf of the MU and the ICA . |
| 18 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 19 | However , environmental regulation was only one of the reasons for the closures , for many firms which closed were the older inefficient or obsolete plants ( Harris , 1981 ) . |