Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR , as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality , was declared no longer in existence , and the three republics individually denounced the 1922 treaty through which it had originally been established . |
| 2 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 3 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 4 | It was that the Pope grew angry and anti-Galileo when he learned of the events of 1616 , of which he had never been informed . |
| 5 | At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware . |
| 6 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 7 | On April 30 Namibia was also formally admitted as a full member of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , of which it had previously been an associate member . |
| 8 | Abolitionists were also therefore demanding direct intervention by the imperial government to end a species of property and override the role of local assemblies with which they had earlier been prepared to collaborate . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 10 | ‘ Each of us was complaining about the spies ’ equipment with which we had both been issued . |
| 11 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 12 | His approach was to try out ideas , with which he had already been successful , on other people and to listen to what came back — particularly from governors and senior staff . |
| 13 | Although we were trying a man for being ‘ drunk in charge ’ two people in the jury room ( after a long exposition from the recorder ) were quite determined to find him not guilty of ‘ dangerous driving ’ — an offence with which he had never been charged . |
| 14 | Homosexuality was plundered partly for its shock value but more importantly the sensibility , which quickly permeated Glam Rock , with which it had long been associated : camp . |
| 15 | Understandably , the conversation turned to the events of the past couple of weeks , in which they had all been involved . |
| 16 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 17 | Under this enforced regimen of quiet and rest , he came to understand that it was necessary for him to retire a little from the active life in which he had previously been engaged ; he told William Turner Levy that he would have to learn to concentrate his time and energy upon his real work . |
| 18 | A past President of the National Consumer Credit Federation reported the way in which he had once been collecting himself , and in one building found his way blocked by three tearaways playing threateningly with knives . |
| 19 | However , although in wartime married women were positively encouraged and in some cases required to re-enter or remain in the labour market , working in those very occupations from which they had previously been ‘ barred ’ , such women were often categorised as temporary workers , or were employed part-time . |
| 20 | The yield of clones grown with the grass species from which they had originally been sampled again exceeded that made when they were grown in an ‘ alien ’ sward , P < 0.00001 . |
| 21 | If a geographical barrier such as a mountain range were gradually destroyed , there would come a point at which plant and animal species would be able to move into territory from which they had hitherto been excluded . |
| 22 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 23 | My tapestries and books were turning into pitch-thick smoke , and the heat , from which I had hitherto been protected , it seems , by the initial surge of adrenalin through my body , now made it plain that this was the last window of opportunity for effecting a dignified , if empty-handed , exit . |
| 24 | Supplanted , perhaps ; cheated ( by fate ) probably ; but now self-absolved from its responsibility , though to bear for ever in his mind the trauma of a calling from which he had somehow been disinherited . |
| 25 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union acted immediately on Aug. 2 to suspend weapons shipments to Iraq , to which it had historically been the principal arms supplier . |
| 27 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 28 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 29 | But this was self-pity , to which he had never been addicted , and he must shake it off at all costs . |
| 30 | The style in which he lived in Passy was not a style to which he had always been accustomed . |