Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 2 | A number of museums wanted the works , some of which had been on loan to The Metropolitan . |
| 3 | The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt . |
| 4 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 5 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 6 | It is part of a move to clear a growing backlog of radioactive waste , some of which has been in store for 25 years . |
| 7 | It would appear that much of France 's corporate aggrandisement has been undertaken by state-owned companies , many of which have been in receipt of illicit subsidies . |
| 8 | National referendums held in November 1988 [ see pp. 36320 ; 36505-06 ] and February 1989 [ see p. 36475 ] overwhelmingly approved amendments to the Constitution transferring power away from the presidency and marking the end of what had been in effect a one-party state . |
| 9 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 10 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |