Example sentences of "which was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report of Planning , Industrial and Economic Development Advisers , which was prepared for British Rail , goes into more detail on that critical point : ’ Stratford is not strongly placed to attract high quality uses , such as corporate headquarters or European Community institutions . |
| 2 | The City was not too deterred by the rights issue which was offset by strong interim figures and an improved dividend payout . |
| 3 | Older Marxist criminologies ( notably Bonger 's ) saw the link between economic conditions and crime precisely as lying in the culture of egoism which was stimulated by economic advance under capitalism ( Bonger , 1916 ) . |
| 4 | The next step was to call a meeting , a move which was made with surprising ease . |
| 5 | Mrs Handy walked barefoot across the floor to turn on the water tap at the kitchen sink which was made of stainless teel . |
| 6 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 7 | On hitting a stop , the messenger released the parachute which was made of lightweight tissue paper , ballasted by a piece of card . |
| 8 | Both of these can be avoided by delegating nursery schools on a similar basis to the delegation which was made for ordinary schools and again you consulted about that and the proposal laid in this report . |
| 9 | A general purpose for leisure viewing would be to give the learner the experience of getting information and enjoyment from viewing a programme which was made for native speakers . |
| 10 | The nearest approach which was made to judicial independence was in 1289 , when Edward I enacted that the seneschal of Aquitaine was the principal seneschal set above all the sub-seneschals ( of the Agenais , Landes , Quercy , Limousin and so forth ) . |
| 11 | The road starts to climb and , to our left , we pass a 14m high clocktower — the Church of Nossa Senhora de Fátima — which was built atop precipitous slopes between 1942 and 1953 . |
| 12 | Calthrop , which was built from original plans , is now largely sidelined because of a smoke box ‘ riddled ’ with corrosion … although she was demonstration-steamed this summer as a static display , amazing Mr Blackhurst when she signalled 40lbs per square even in her tired state . |
| 13 | A Saxon and a Norman chapel stood on the site of the present church , which was built by Prior Cantlow in the last ten years of the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | There are several fascinating castles and abbeys in the vicinity including : Richmond Castle , 6 miles away , which was built in 107– as protection against the Saxons , and Bolton Castle , 12 miles away , where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned , and the ruins of the once magnificent Abbeys of Easby , Jervaulx and Coverham . |
| 15 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 16 | Indeed the AcerArc1 ACE box which was built around interchangable MIPS R4000 RISC and Intel 80486 parts and shown earlier this year running NT is now very much on hold , with the only users being Microsoft and Acer internally . |
| 17 | Alexander the Great was the subject of a poem in this metre which was written in Old French . |
| 18 | The Wimpey connection at the Championships was further strengthened when WCUK Birmingham held a special welcome dinner for the British gymnasts and guests which was attended by regional director , Jeff Adams . |
| 19 | Speaking on Feb. 9 at NATO 's annual Munich Conference on Security , which was attended by leading figures from the 16 member countries , Quayle warned of the consequences if a solution were not found to the deadlock in talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT — see p. 38746 ) . |
| 20 | We have thus focused our study on five clones , the level of expression of which was analyzed by Northern blot in various tissues . |
| 21 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 22 | We felt , at the time , that there was a large gap between the type of grammar which was studied in the English language classroom , and the type of grammar which was studied in linguistic departments : there was a consequent need for the reconciliation of theory and practical pedagogy in the study of English grammar . |
| 23 | She took the can in her gloved hand , which was caked in black mud . |
| 24 | Soon afterwards , in the autumn of 1933 , the BUF bought the lease of the Whitelands Teachers Training College , Chelsea , which was turned into fascist headquarters , the so-called Black House . |
| 25 | As a result , his kingdom , with the exception of Paris , which was treated as neutral ground , was divided among his brothers , not that the division was universally respected . |
| 26 | The US repeatedly asked Israel to ensure that Harari , aged 62 , to leave Panama , but Israel insisted that he was a private citizen , a claim which was treated with considerable scepticism by Washington . |
| 27 | On 8 June 1991 the patient developed a generalised urticarial rash with bronchospasm , which was treated with intravenous hydrocortisone and chlorpheniramine . |
| 28 | The vast red sail burst free of its lashings , the wind filling it so that it bowed forward in a great scarlet curve on which was painted in brilliant gold the portrait of the Golden Girl herself , bubble-curled , lips pouting — Marilyn Monroe . |
| 29 | The twentieth-century advance of rehabilitation as a penal aim , which was favoured by positivist criminologists , also attempted to exclude retributive considerations of desert from penal treatment . |
| 30 | French and British policies were quite similar in favouring ‘ high-end ’ and semi-custom chip production which was supported by government-assisted R&D and mergers , and by government purchasing . |