Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 2 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 3 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 4 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 5 | The government envisaged the mapping as being a simple , progressive operation which only required to be undertaken once , and the sooner the better . |
| 6 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 7 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 8 | In calling on Congress for this aid the President outlined the broad policy , which soon came to be known as the Truman Doctrine . |
| 9 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 10 | But he continued to be interested in the principles behind tribal art rather than in the aesthetic appeal of individual objects ; and these principles could be embodied even in the contemporary ‘ forgeries ’ which quickly began to be produced in quite large numbers to meet the demand for ‘ primitive ’ art . |
| 11 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 12 | The agreement , which still had to be endorsed by local chiefs , left central Bougainville as the only area where government services had yet to be restored . |
| 13 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 14 | Under Roman-Dutch law , which gradually came to be enforced in the Low Country , all children were allowed a share in the inheritance . |
| 15 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 16 | George III employed Barnard as chief agent in his lifelong endeavour to build up a new collection , which later came to be known as the King 's Library . |
| 17 | The central target of the new rationalism , however , was the chorus , which now came to be seen as an anomalous relic of the past . |
| 18 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 19 | He was not an alien , northern magnate from whom anything might be expected , but a key figure in the reconstructed royal authority which now needed to be preserved for the young king . |
| 20 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 21 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 22 | The sulphur was burned off , thus producing a lead oxide which then had to be reduced leaving behind the pure lead . |
| 23 | Thus we have already seen that the provision of ( hardware ) index registers provides a facility ( instruction modification ) which previously had to be provided by software , and the interrupt facility is the hardware equivalent of scattering transput test instructions through a program . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union regarded the American refusal critically and predictably withdrew the offer of coal to the south , which instead had to be supplied from Japan . |
| 25 | The airstrip , with its unfriendly yellow cross that warned strange aircraft from landing , had been built across the curved flukes of the anchor , which otherwise seemed to be covered in low scrub , slash pine and sea-grape . |
| 26 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |
| 27 | Just inside the big double entrance doors were hundreds of tiles which never seemed to be sold . |