Example sentences of "which [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , Matthew Paris , the medieval author of Historia Anglorum and who used the Nativity reckoning , wrote in consequence that certain eminent people were born , or died , on certain dates which were at a variance of a full year with the Historical . |
| 10 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 11 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 12 | Not only would it be impossible to identify the goods which were at the buyer 's risk but also it would be impossible to identify any goods which were pro rata at his risk . |
| 13 | The structural changes which were at the heart of Big Bang necessitated a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework . |
| 14 | However , we are concerned about the distinct lack of any clear recognition that the principles of environmental sustainability , which were at the heart of the White Paper , should underpin the future development of industry , commerce and small businesses . |
| 15 | Progress or improvement is no more likely than decline : he now repeatedly disowns any necessary historical logic of progress ; its incarnations will always , strictly speaking , be accidental ones in relation to the objectives which were at the origin of praxis : |
| 16 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 17 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 18 | Only when the critic has access to all the sources which were at the disposal of the editor can his findings be absolutely certain . |
| 19 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 20 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 21 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 22 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 23 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 24 | But sometimes before going underground a boy , on leaving school , went to work on the screens which were on the surface — top-pit . |
| 25 | The OCU also operated the T.4s which were on the strength of the flying squadrons so that the actual complement was almost double this meagre total . |
| 26 | Ignoring the whole question of invisibility , which is particularly oppressive to working-class lesbians and gays , she nonetheless raised matters which were on the minds of many other heterosexual politicians . |
| 27 | on this in our January meeting , February meeting I 'm sorry , February meeting , are there any other comments members want to make now about proposals which were on the table , about the actual route line which was the one |
| 28 | The police were called , after which Bradley started to tear up the paper bags which were on the counter . |
| 29 | But the campaigners found only four fridges which were on the list of ozone-friendly household appliances . |
| 30 | type combined tail lamp and service number stencil carriers on the underside of the canopy against the head of the stairs , which were of the quarter turn direct type . |