Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which he had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | partly the causes were external — loss of friends , hosts of visitors — but partly temperamental : Tolkien could not ‘ discipline himself into adopting regular working methods ’ ( a fault of which he had been aware since the time of ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ ) . |
| 2 | The execution ended a case which had aroused intense public interest , not least because of strong evidence that Coleman was innocent of the crime of which he had been convicted . |
| 3 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 4 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 5 | He did not carry the gong with which he had been presented as player of the tournament but Fiji 's captain Waisale Serevi — the nation having defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — is not an individual who requires a calling card . |
| 6 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 7 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 8 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 9 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 10 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 11 | It was this separation of which he had been afraid . |
| 12 | Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother . |
| 13 | Carlos Navarro , resigned on June 20 as treasurer of the parliamentary group of the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , as a result of allegations that two Madrid consulting companies with which he had been associated were fronts for the channelling of illegal donations to the PSOE from corporations and banks . |
| 14 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 15 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 16 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 17 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | The publication of the preface to Aden Arabie in 1960 signalled Nizan 's return from the wilderness to which he had been consigned by Cold War politics . |
| 19 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 20 | Duke Berthold sent neither the expected money nor the troops for which he had been asked nor the hostages , nor did he turn up . |
| 21 | Now , so close to the Last Days for which he had been prepared , Seth was what he was , and nothing less . |
| 22 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 23 | Alijon Selekhbayev was reinstated as Chair of the Committee for National Security , a post from which he had been removed by Nabiyev on Aug. 4 . |
| 24 | Nottinghamshire club player Bryn Derbyshire was given a three-month suspended sentence with £300 costs , and had to pay £400 compensation to umpire Joseph Purser after causing ‘ bodily harm by wanton furious driving ’ by reversing his car at the umpire after a match in which he had been given out lbw . |
| 25 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 26 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 27 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 28 | On the morning after his return to Jesus College , Coleridge paused to look about the room from which he had been absent since June , and to record his state of mind in a letter to Southey : |
| 29 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 30 | Creggan felt even more afraid , not of the strangeness and unfamiliarity of the dreadful place to which he had been brought , but of the eagle in the cage next to his . |