Example sentences of "which were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comprehensive nature of the local groups is evident from a list of their duties , which were to focus the efforts of different agencies dealing with juvenile employment ; to organize methods of collecting information about the character , education , and home life of school-leavers , usually with the assistance of teachers and school care committees ( SCCs ) ( which were under the control of the education offices ) ; to form subcommittees or rotas to attend the labour exchange for the purpose of interviewing applicants and parents ; and to organize a system of ‘ after-care ’ in co-operation with SCCs , clubs , and other similar organizations . |
| 2 | all of which were under discussion from the spring of 1918 . |
| 3 | In detail , Russell proposed completely to disfranchise small boroughs of less than 2,000 inhabitants , most of which were under the influence of a particular local patron , and some of which , like Old Sarum , were green mounds or heaps of stone . |
| 4 | This view seems a little extreme and in Asfar v. Blundell ( 1896 C.A. ) it was held that dates , which were under water for two days and became impregnated with sewage , had perished — i.e. in a commercial sense . |
| 5 | Twelve awards were made for programmes of research , all of which were under way by November 1983 . |
| 6 | The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the controversial B-2 " Stealth " bomber project , 15 of which were under construction , allocating $4,600 million for the construction of two bombers during 1991 and for further research into the radar-evading aircraft . |
| 7 | Three general strikes paralysed the public and private sectors on Sept. 3 , Sept. 9-10 and Sept. 16 in protest at social security reforms which were under debate in parliament . |
| 8 | The trained bands , which were under the control of the Tory-Anglican lieutenancy , and which during the Exclusion Crisis had been efficient in suppressing the activities of Whig and Nonconformist crowds , refused to act against the crowds who gathered to prevent people from attending the mass , believing that since the professed purpose was " only pulling down Popery " , they could not " in conscience hinder " . |
| 9 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 10 | By a 6:3 vote the court overturned a pair of decisions from 1987 and 1989 which had excluded " victim impact " evidence — concerning the character of the victim and the suffering of their survivors — from juries which were considering imposing the death penalty . |
| 11 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 12 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 13 | They used cassette-recorders to circulate poems and songs , some of which were about current affairs , others political in the sense that they recounted events in which Zuwaya acquitted themselves well . |
| 14 | Wolsey 's attack was partial , disguised as a ‘ reform ’ of those houses which were beyond redemption . |
| 15 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 16 | That some of the recommendations were for actions which were beyond the means of the school does not deny the effectiveness of the review procedure . |
| 17 | Gould knew , long before he ever decided to set sail , that the province of Australia had fallen miraculously into his lap , and that he would be able to publish from the ‘ rich ornithological productions ’ of this country a series of works which were beyond challenge . |
| 18 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 19 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 20 | New interests came into being which were outside of the established set-up . |
| 21 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 22 | Duke of Gloucester 's run on the first mid-week North Wales Coast Express was hit by a number of problems none of which were as a result of problems with the locomotive . |
| 23 | Two March records , which were for 1972 , may have involved only one bird , as may two August records in 1973 . |
| 24 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 25 | In 1987 , 2.16 million summonses were issued under this Administrative Default Procedure , two thirds of which were for less than £500 — there were only 1.98 million in 1983 . |
| 26 | I think that I am correct in saying that the two original high level computer languages were Cobol and Prolog , which were for developing business and general/scientific applications respectively . |
| 27 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 28 | Have those sexual practices which were for long condemned as " deviant " or " perverted " really become general ? |
| 29 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 30 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |