Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 2 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 3 | The President ushered his party into seats which had been kept vacant in the top bench and then he turned to address the community . |
| 4 | The rediscovery of rich veins of vernacular literature , which had been kept alive in the oral traditions of the peasants during centuries of domination by alien cultures , gave a feeling of self-confidence to the national movements which were striving for independence . |
| 5 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 6 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 7 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 8 | The sheer size of the task in fact prompted the EC Commission to doubt whether the traditional approach to the standards problem , which had been adopted prior to the SEA , was any longer appropriate . |
| 9 | A system with historic origins which had been made democratic in the nineteenth century was reorganized on a two-tier basis after a series of reports . |
| 10 | The ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) suffered a humiliating by-election defeat on April 11 in Wills , an inner-city constituency in Melbourne , which had been made vacant by the retirement of former ALP federal leader and Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 11 | This was in 1976 , when the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons was refused access to a programme analysis and review ( PAR ) study on educational planning which had been made available to the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and referred to at length in one of their publications . |
| 12 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 13 | Even English seaside resorts , which had been made popular through royal patronage , saw relatively few visitors . |
| 14 | First , whether in or out , we would bear the cost of supporting the economies which had been made non-viable by the single currency . |
| 15 | Mr Beckenham remained only the one night at Merchiston Lodge , sleeping in the room next to Araminta 's , which had been made ready for him . |
| 16 | They crossed the jetty to a large wooden door , which had been propped open with a three-legged stool . |
| 17 | Interestingly , the date of the building is roughly contemporary with the Combe Down inscription , coinciding with a considerable tightening of control over imperial estates under the emperor Severus , when the liberality which had been introduced first by Hadrian and later by Pertinax was largely cancelled . |
| 18 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 19 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 20 | Republican candidate Thomas Ewing on July 2 secure election to the House of Representatives seat for Illinois which had been left vacant by the appointment , confirmed in March , of Edward Madigan as Secretary for Agriculture . |
| 21 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 22 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 23 | On July 5 it was announced that the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) had secured five of the 10 mayoralities of provincial capitals which had been left undecided in June pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities . |
| 24 | However , Ra squeamishly refused to witness the slaughter , so he flooded the fields where his subjects were with beer which had been dyed red with pomegranate juice to resemble blood . |
| 25 | The springer which had been lying buttered on the floor midway between the two slewed an eye in the direction of Vanessa Dersingham when she spoke . |
| 26 | Lachlan , a bandage round his left thigh which had been axed open to the bone , growled from his stool , but Hector nodded . |
| 27 | In 1323 the Justices of the Forest were ordered to recall all the royal demesne woods which had been disafforested contrary to the Charter of the Forest : Henry Scrope , appointed Justice of the Forest north of Trent on 10 September , reafforested thirty-three townships in the Forest of Galtres alone . |
| 28 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |