Example sentences of "which it [was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained .
2 Mr Anthony ArlidgeQC , counsel for Dr Crockett , read out an advertisement from a Turkish newspaper in which it was stated that Mr Koc was selling his kidney .
3 Mr Anthony ArlidgeQC , counsel for Dr Crockett , read out an advertisement from a Turkish newspaper in which it was stated that Mr Koc was selling his kidney .
4 in the assessment of damages for the breach of any of the Warranties full credit shall be given for the amount by which as at Completion the value of any current assets of the Business was greater or any current liability of the Business was less than the figure at which it was stated or provided for in the Accounts ;
5 There then followed a frenzied round of negotiations during which it was believed that the Renamo leader was encouraged to sign the accord by the South African government and by Roland " Tiny " Rowland , the chief executive of the UK-based multinational Lonrho who had played a key role in the negotiations process [ see p. 39039 ] .
6 A supervision order will last for one year beginning with the date on which it was made unless the supervisor applies to the court to extend it ( para 6 ) .
7 The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer .
8 Write down the date on which it was recorded and the name of the speaker and location .
9 The occasion of this denunciation was the annual meeting in Venice this October of the twenty international private societies for the safeguarding of the city , at which it was announced that they , on the other hand , had spent £750,000 of privately raised money .
10 I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event .
11 In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions .
12 Delegates voted on the nominations in a secret ballot on the morning of July 13 , as a result of which it was announced that every candidate had won an absolute majority of votes .
13 Emburey 's last Test was against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989 , the game in which it was announced that he was among 16 rebels who had decided to tour South Africa and accept an international ban .
14 ‘ From tomorrow , Sarah , I should like you to wear your hair in the style in which it was dressed when you attended the service at the Foundling Hospital , ’ he said , forcing the smile which gave him a jovial reputation .
15 However it is not the distance , but the conditions under which it was achieved that set this dive apart .
16 Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " .
17 How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ?
18 The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 .
19 Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter .
20 Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter .
21 Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence .
22 The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence .
23 It is in fact this object ( literariness ) and the way in which it was defined that guarantees the coherence of the science .
24 One of the most striking and curious aspects of the social history of child abuse is the way in which it was denied and ignored by the professionals , notably doctors .
25 ( 3 ) Allowing the appeal ( Lord Griffiths dissenting ) , that in view of the terms of the letter from the Crown Prosecution Service , in which it was accepted that the order restricted them to utilising material already collected or independently gathered , and the safeguards contained in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , the compliance with the order for disclosure would not create any real danger for the defendants of prejudice in criminal proceedings ( post , pp. 353G–H , 354A–B , 358G–H , 359C–E , 360A , 362G–H , 364E–H ) .
26 The decade ahead was one in which it was projected that there would be no growth in the Department of Health and Social Security 's annual allocation to the NETRHA .
27 A meeting of the workers was called in the locker room by the shop steward at which it was decided that no one would return to the contaminated area .
28 For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection .
29 Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group .
30 Someone should dig it out from the carpet under which it was brushed and blow the dust off it .
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