Example sentences of "which [vb past] [be] formed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 2 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been formed in order to bring employers and employees together in an attempt to resolve differences without industrial conflict . |
| 3 | During that summer , tenants ' associations which had been formed in Rossville Flats , Meenan Park , Shantallow , Rossville Street , Lecky Road and Foyle Hill set up a central council to coordinate their activities . |
| 4 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 5 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 6 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 7 | This was a company , named after their Eton housemaster Bob Baird , which had been formed when they discovered that they were too young legally to book holidays themselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only exception was the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes which had been formed in 1948 . |
| 10 | His situation was not in this respect dissimilar from that of the leaders of the North of England Sailors and Seagoing Firemen 's Friendly Association , which had been formed at Sunderland in 1879 by John Beresford and was commonly known as the " Sunderland Union " . |
| 11 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 12 | When this collapsed in 1878 , he got a post as a junior clerk with the Distillers Company Limited , which had been formed a year earlier by six of the largest Lowland patent distillers to rationalize production . |
| 13 | Isolated pockets of alluvium and fluvioglacial material were encountered in various small valleys along the route which had been formed as glacial melt-water channels . |
| 14 | Mugabe won 78 per cent of the vote in the presidential election against 16 per cent obtained by his opponent Edgar Tekere , leader of the opposition Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM ) which had been formed in April 1989 [ see pp. 36965-66 ] . |
| 15 | The national congress of the Democratic Party , which had been formed in February 1989 [ see p. 36453 ] , on Oct. 7 , 1989 , voted to retain its collective three-person leadership , comprising Zach de Beer , Wynand Malan and Denis Worrall . |
| 16 | On Nov. 24 three-quarters of the delegates at the 18th congress of the Unified Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste unifié — PSU ) voted to disband the party which had been formed in 1960 . |
| 17 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 18 | The party , which had been formed in 1981 , had won only three seats in the 1987 general election but a rump led by David Owen had refused to merge with the Liberals in January 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] , and had performed poorly in the local elections in May 1991 . |
| 19 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 20 | It was announced in mid-November that the United People 's Party ( UPP ) , the grouping formed by Hyundai conglomerate founder Chung Ju Yung , was to merge with the New Korea Party ( NKP ) which had been formed in October [ see p. 39142 ] by defectors from the political mainstream , most of whom had been DLP members who were opposed to the succession of Kim Young Sam . |
| 21 | In 1949 , the Soviet Union organized the Council for Mutual Economic Aid ( Comecon ) , paralleling the Organization for European Economic Cooperation , which had been formed in 1948 as a framework within which the United States could distribute aid to rebuild the warshattered West European economies . |