Example sentences of "which [pers pn] have hitherto [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of the hearing before us , however , it became clear , as Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has explained , that unless W. submitted to treatment of the kind which she had hitherto refused she would begin to suffer irreversible harm within a week . |
| 2 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 3 | Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge . |
| 4 | Ceremonial and precedence notably lost most of the power to agitate rulers and governments which they had hitherto possessed . |
| 5 | For the first time , too , he writes with some bitterness about the customs of William I and Lanfranc which he had hitherto accepted without demur : |
| 6 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 7 | His interruptions therefore coincide with his rejection of the principles of politeness to which he has hitherto adhered quite consistently . |
| 8 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 9 | Barbados Labour Party ( BLP , former Foreign Minister Henry Forde l. ) is the right-wing opposition ; the National Democratic Party ( NDP , Richie Haynes l. ) , a splinter group from the DLP formed in 1989 , lost in the 1991 general election the four seats which it had hitherto held . |
| 10 | France announced on June 3 that it would sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , which it had hitherto refused to endorse on the grounds that it compromised France 's nuclear independence . |