Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 2 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 3 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 4 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 5 | As a consequence of its success , the Northumbrian establishment which had been responsible for the débâcle of Nechtanesmere and the limited recovery under Aldfrith perpetuated itself in power a little longer and sporadic warfare with the Picts was resumed . |
| 6 | So not only do you get a full commercial system , but you also reap the benefits of a set-up which has been tailor-made for the hotel trade , without sacrificing any of the functions . |
| 7 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 8 | He has the HLA B8 DR3 haplotype and an 18 year history of ulcerative colitis which has been quiescent for more than 12 months . |
| 9 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 10 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 11 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 12 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 13 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 14 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |