Example sentences of "which was [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk was that those good enough to pass the special high standards required by the regiment , would receive wings and special regalia , which was sure to appeal to the ladies . |
| 2 | This view is supported by a number of independent inquiries , the most recent of which was that undertaken by the House of Commons Energy Select Committee in 1987 : |
| 3 | According to this view , which was first developed in the 1930s , economic progress is marked by the successive growth and decline of the three sectors of the economy . |
| 4 | One of the first initiatives of the new regime was British Deaf Awareness Week ( BDA Week ) which was first mounted in the autumn of 1982 and has been organised by Bob Peckford annually ever since . |
| 5 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
| 6 | Pat Keen gave a short talk on the history and work of MRM , with Vanessa Forbes , Janice Hewitt and Chris Jones as class members in a practical demonstration , ending with a performance of Vanessa 's Surrey item which was first seen at the Crystal Palace Rally . |
| 7 | There will be companies from the Evonana Theatre at Guildford and the Redgrave Theatre at Farnham , with David Mercer 's last play and Pinter 's ‘ Betrayal ’ which was first seen at The National Theatre . |
| 8 | That 's the logic behind Schering 's Packman closed transfer system for sprays , which was first unveiled in the spring of last year . |
| 9 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 10 | The play , which was first presented in the West End in 1988 , may have been overtaken by events but in no way seems dated by this factor . |
| 11 | Indeed the basic telegraphic equations were ‘ … in their simplest form … first given by Lord Kelvin in 1855 ’ .6 Another of Kelvin 's achievements was development of the concept of inductance , the practical importance of which was first brought to the attention of engineers by ‘ … the problems experienced in … the Atlantic cables ’ .7 |
| 12 | The programme included Baroque pieces by Purcell , Torelli , Bach and Handel , and began with Professor Raymond Warren 's Ceremonial Fanfare for trumpet and organ , which was first performed at the University 's Centenary Degree Congregation in the Colston Hall in 1976 and subsequently , in a revised form , at the installation of the present Chancellor , Sir Jeremy Morse , in 1989 . |
| 13 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 14 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 15 | John Tomlinson 's article , Dose , Dilution and the LM Potencies which was first published in the Journal of the Society of Homœopaths ( Vol. 10 No. 4 Dec. 1990 ) has been included and gives a detailed analysis of Hahnemann 's thinking which led to his development of the LM system . |
| 16 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 17 | Inside , it was so hot and humid , and the smoke , which was supposed to vanish towards the great baronial chimney , hung in the air instead and stung your eyes . |
| 18 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |
| 19 | On the radio link Richie reported that he had scored a net 69 , which was likely to stand as the best score of the day . |
| 20 | The professorship , which was last held by the late Professor Martin Harrison , is one of the 12 established chairs under the Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores , complementing the Lincoln Professorship of Classical ( Greek ) Archaeology and Art . |
| 21 | The magistrates point to the problematical definition of crimes against humanity , which was last modified by the Court of Cassation in 1985 to clarify the Klaus Barbie case . |