Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hostile territory a siege was not lightly undertaken ; if certain reasonable precautions had been taken , those who sought refuge inside a town or castle could reasonably hope to survive , in particular if their refuge were a town which , with its generally greater size and more generous ameneties which favoured the defender , presented a besieger with a greater challenge than did even the best defended castle . |
| 2 | Defective windows were a risk which window cleaners should guard against . |
| 3 | It is no longer fashionable to discuss the Industrial Revolution as if it were an event which happened between 1760 and 1840 . |
| 4 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 5 | Carefully used , they were an instrument which enhanced and profited from royal authority . |
| 6 | These were an institution which was an integral part of life in the days of the Roman Empire . |
| 7 | ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’ |
| 8 | It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . |
| 9 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 10 | It was a doctrine which had grown obsolete . |
| 11 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 12 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 13 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 14 | At the back of this room there was a door which led into the second room . |
| 15 | Here , there was a door which was of course locked . |
| 16 | This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies . |
| 17 | It was a position which helped him survive many subsequent close calls , particularly during the wave of anti-foreign sentiment engendered under the later years of President Sukarno 's regime . |
| 18 | The more inglorious aspects of Morrison 's life and behaviour , and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his ‘ followers ’ are n't concealed , but then Jones does n't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either : ‘ Humility was a trait which did n't sit well with Morrison ’ is about as heavy as the criticism gets . |
| 19 | The focus of the museum has always been the pictures in the collections , and it was a philosophy which I shared completely . |
| 20 | His principal patrons were the family of the dukes of Argyll , his commissions from them including Combe Bank , Kent ( c .1726 ) — his first major independent work — Whitton Place , Twickenham ( c .1732–9 , demolished ) , and his largest undertaking , Inveraray Castle , Argyllshire ( begun 1745 ) ; and this was a contact which again appears to have originated at Marble Hill . |
| 21 | This was a warning which , as Fergus Pyle reported , very few of them could have heard . |
| 22 | On the generous mouth was a half-smile which was echoed in the golden-brown eyes . |
| 23 | The courtly ceremonial acted as a veil around the naked reality of Mughal politics ; it was a mask which deliberately disguised the brutality and coarseness that lay hidden beneath . |
| 24 | If that was the case , then it was a mutation which bred true . |
| 25 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 26 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 27 | It was the sort of pride which comes before a fall — and it was a fall which Gorbachev became increasingly willing to envisage . |
| 28 | She brought her husband to help but all he could offer was a shrug which was no comfort at all . |
| 29 | This was a handicap which he never found time to remedy later on in life . |
| 30 | Since Count Humbert 's lands controlled all the passes in the Western Alps it was a marriage which opened up intriguing , if uncertain , prospects , and Henry was willing to pay 5000 marks in order to secure it . |