Example sentences of "[noun pl] which had [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions . |
| 4 | Since the Second World War the family has entered the international arena by its contributions to multi-racial education in Africa , by establishing the International Students ' House in London for students from overseas , and by founding the Michael Wills Scholarships at Oxford University to replace the Rhodes Scholarships which had been discontinued for Germans in 1939 . |
| 5 | One thing about having a job , she thought , sitting down at her desk and leafing through the messages which had been left for her , it certainly takes your mind off your worries . |
| 6 | Behind such analyses lay Richard Hoggart 's extensive and sensitive work in The Uses of Literacy , published in 1957 and documenting the assumptions , attitudes , and morals of working-class people in Northern England , together with the influence upon them of the magazines , books , and films which had been produced for a mass market . |
| 7 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 8 | The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 . |
| 9 | Another batch of goods which had been bought for £400 and sold for £600 were subsequently found to be faulty . |
| 10 | Being based on characters which had been designed for incising in stone they were difficult and slow to write . |
| 11 | Historically this was created shortly after nineteen sixty one as a rough way of judging the submissions which had been made for sketch plan purposes on the basis of the nineteen fifty five circular . |
| 12 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 13 | On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] . |
| 14 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |