Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the number of fire engines which turned up was correlated with the amount of damage done at those fires , a positive relationship would probably be discovered . |
| 2 | He said the meeting , which had also been attended by the local policeman , Constable Mike Munro , had attracted about 20 villagers . |
| 3 | ( c ) Quarters : the quarters which had also been framed in jigs , panelled up , moulded , glazed and painted with one coat outside , were then erected and secured in position with corner knees . |
| 4 | Anne and her husband Alan , who was wearing a costume made by her grandmother which had also been worn by her father , told me how the village was changing . |
| 5 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 6 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 7 | She turned her attention to the bowl of soup which had just been placed in front of her . |
| 8 | By 1923 , the rise of the Saudi Kingdom presented a new threat to stability , and so a convention fixed the border between the emirate of Kuwait and Iraq , which had just been created under a British mandate . |
| 9 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 10 | Scarlet could not now imagine how she had passed the week with the house next door empty and soulless : she tidied the kitchen in readiness for her friend 's return and sat down to read the local paper , two copies of which had just been delivered through the letterbox . |
| 11 | The photographers from the drawing office came in with the news which had just been broadcast on the radio . |
| 12 | Some were in business suits , others in uniforms which had clearly been designed by a Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiast . |
| 13 | But , at length , the drawings and sketches were laid out and the plans for Flaherty 's new steam-powered melting pot which had unaccountably been packed by mistake put away again . |
| 14 | In 1991 there were two new questions which had not been asked in previous Censuses ; one on limiting long-term illness and the other on ethnic origin . |
| 15 | At a meeting of European Community ( EC ) Foreign Ministers in Dublin , Ireland , on Feb. 20 , Genscher sought to reassure those governments which had not been consulted about the two plus four agreement . |
| 16 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 17 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 18 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom , in particular , had an interest in protesting the closure of New Zealand 's ports to ships which had not been confirmed to be neither nuclear armed nor propelled . |
| 20 | In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography . |
| 21 | The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution . |
| 22 | The ANC , however , declared that it would not be deterred by a government whichit considered illegitimate and which had not been recognized by the rest of the world . |
| 23 | ( By contrast on Nov. 2 the Bank of France had lowered the intervention rate , the traditional bench-mark rate for French lending which had not been adjusted since Oct. 17 , 1991 , by 0.25 percentage points to 9.35 per cent . |
| 24 | Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash . |
| 25 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 26 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 27 | The other 15 films were distractors , these were chosen from the exemplars of the same junctions which had not been seen by the subject before . |
| 28 | She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years . |
| 29 | In the late 1930s a new pattern of earlier marriage began to emerge which had not been seen in the West for centuries . |
| 30 | All these papers had been locked away out of sight , in no particular order , in a tin trunk stored in that part of the attic which had not been incorporated into the living accommodation . |