Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 2 | He said all the animals appeared to be domestic pets which had been dumped in the park , including a couple of angoras . |
| 3 | Most of the latter ( except Stopes 's five clinics ) affiliated with the Family Planning Association which had been formed from the National Birth Control Association in 1939 . |
| 4 | On May 26 , 1989 , the Belau and US governments signed a series of subsidiary agreements in Guam on additional economic and social aid as an incentive for the population of Belau to ratify the compact of free association which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 5 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 6 | So it was that R. Kuhn , in Switzerland , administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed . |
| 7 | In human terms the reasoning which had been presented to him was filled with flaws and false assumptions . |
| 8 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 9 | Grujović , an Austrian Serb , had been professor of law at Kharkov , and had acted as secretary to the Serbian delegation which had been sent to St Petersburg to enlist the support of the Russians . |
| 10 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 11 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 12 | There was optimism at the beginning of February that the violence which had been waged in Azerbaijan and along its borders with Armenia with such ferocity in the previous month [ see pp. 37168-70 ] might be ended by peace talks between the leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and Armenian Pan-National Front which began in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) on Feb. 1 . |
| 13 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 14 | Tactics which had been honed in the petty but ruthless world of student-union politics were now deployed in party meetings with devastating results . |
| 15 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 16 | War production — the very continuance of the war itself — depended on civilian morale ; morale determined the need to take account of the blueprints for the future which had been articulated before the war began . |
| 17 | The decision concluded a debate within the party and more generally on the country 's political future which had been launched by President Joao Bernardo Vieira in May 1990 [ see p. 37802 ] in response to demands for change . |
| 18 | Some years ago , some of these people were accidentally given blood which had been infected with HIV and so the virus got into their bloodstream . |
| 19 | Indica 's contacts with modern art had yielded , through the Robert Fraser Gallery a large American car which had been painted in fashionable stripes by New York 's Binder , Edwards and Vaughan , interior decorators . |
| 20 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 21 | Calgary & Edmonton Land Co . Ltd. v. Discount Bank ( Overseas ) Ltd. [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 81 concerned cautions which had been entered on the register in order to protect interests claimed in a pending action . |
| 22 | On June 4 , 1990 , it was announced that the vertical script would be reintroduced in schools , alongside the Cyrillic script which had been introduced in 1946 . |
| 23 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 24 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 25 | Athelstan thought the odour came from that but , looking around , he saw the rotting heads which had been placed on spikes in the gaps of the crenellated wall . |
| 26 | He is known to have robbed his father by gambling away funds which had been entrusted to him , and then to have sunk into desperate poverty . |
| 27 | Almost 69 per cent of the electorate of the Republic of Belau ( formerly Palau — see p. 30756 ) took part on Feb. 6 in a seventh referendum on the issue of the country 's compact of free association with the United States which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 28 | The end labelled probe was mixed with 20µg of protein extract which had been preincubated with 5µg poly ( d ( I-C ) ) and single stranded or doubled stranded competitor DNA . |
| 29 | In most cases the thieves targeted cars which had been left with bags or other valuables clearly visible . |
| 30 | Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use . |