Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 2 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 3 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 4 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 5 | The government envisaged the mapping as being a simple , progressive operation which only required to be undertaken once , and the sooner the better . |
| 6 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 7 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 8 | In calling on Congress for this aid the President outlined the broad policy , which soon came to be known as the Truman Doctrine . |
| 9 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 10 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 11 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 12 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 13 | Spooner 's idea came from an invitation by his actor-neighbour , Jim Dale , to visit the set of the latest Carry On … film at Pinewood — which just happened to be Carry On Cleo . |
| 14 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 15 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |
| 16 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 17 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 18 | But he continued to be interested in the principles behind tribal art rather than in the aesthetic appeal of individual objects ; and these principles could be embodied even in the contemporary ‘ forgeries ’ which quickly began to be produced in quite large numbers to meet the demand for ‘ primitive ’ art . |
| 19 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 20 | The agreement , which still had to be endorsed by local chiefs , left central Bougainville as the only area where government services had yet to be restored . |
| 21 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 22 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 23 | Under Roman-Dutch law , which gradually came to be enforced in the Low Country , all children were allowed a share in the inheritance . |
| 24 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 25 | ‘ John Brown , for example , was immense throughout the last 15 minutes of the match , which also had to be the longest of my life , ’ he stated . |
| 26 | She broke into films in 1933 , when MGM advertised for ‘ tall girls in bathing suits ’ , and made her movie debut in the chorus in Dancing Lady , which also happened to be Fred Astaire 's first film . |
| 27 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 28 | ‘ It was the day before my estimated delivery date , which also happened to be one of the children 's birthdays and half-term holidays , so I was very busy . |
| 29 | George III employed Barnard as chief agent in his lifelong endeavour to build up a new collection , which later came to be known as the King 's Library . |
| 30 | A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt . |