Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 2 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 3 | The president of Daiwa Securities , Japan 's second-largest securities company , resigned on March 11 in connection with a stock scandal which threatened to reignite the controversy over the relationship between brokers and major clients which had been at the root of a series of scandals in mid-1991 [ see pp. 38292 ; 38342-42 ] . |
| 4 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 5 | It was not until 1837 that the beautiful pair of wrought-iron gates , which had been at the entrance to Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , were purchased by the Duke of Devonshire for the main entrance to Chiswick House , created as the alternative to the old main entrance off Lord Burlington 's Lane . |
| 6 | Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor . |
| 7 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 8 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 9 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 10 | The appeal court took the view that a speaker must take the audience as he or she finds it — this contradicted Beatty v. Gillbanks and revived all the fears about ‘ mob rule ’ which had been to the forefront of the judges ' minds in that case . |
| 11 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 12 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 13 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 14 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 15 | When Liz 's parents had both been tragically killed in an air crash over Paris Liz — an eleven-year-old orphan — had come to live with Laura and her parents in the old stone manor house , part of a large estate which had been in the Harding family for generations . |
| 16 | The plaintiff drank the ginger beer , and when a second glass was poured for her by her friend a decomposing snail which had been in the bottle floated out . |
| 17 | I recall having to stand out in the cold at Cotherstone Chapel when one gentleman belonging to a family which had been in the dale for several generations was laid to rest . |
| 18 | The Cabinet , which had been in the course of formation since March 1991 [ see p. 38103 ] and was still not complete , was therefore dissolved . |
| 19 | The report , which had been in the government 's possession for eight months , revealed that department officials had misappropriated funds , running into many millions of rands , intended for distribution in rural communities in the bantustans ( homelands ) . |
| 20 | During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years . |
| 21 | Like the War Minister , Reitern at the Ministry of Finances accelerated the introduction of changes which had been in the air since 1855 . |
| 22 | In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent . |
| 23 | Most of the supply industry 's generating expertise had previously been in the larger power companies and municipalities ( which had been in the forefront of developing the more advanced power stations ) , but the first power company engineer they recruited as head of generation design fell ill shortly afterwards and died . |
| 24 | They were followed by the Kiplings when they retired from Clove Lodge , which had been in the family for generations . |
| 25 | Mr Lear was the son of an ironmonger who owned a business in Horsemarket , Darlington , which had been in the family for generations . |
| 26 | The carving is a superb piece of craftsmanship but most of its fruit , flower and dead animal motifs are straight copies of a section of bought-in 17th-century carving , doubtfully by Grinling Gibbons , which had been in the city form some years and now lies behind lock plate glass doors in the Public Library on College Green . |
| 27 | The party conflict which had been in the process of emerging in England since 1660 , and which had led to the clash between Whigs and Tories during the Exclusion Crisis , continued to develop after the Glorious Revolution , and reached a new height of intensity in the reign of Queen Anne . |
| 28 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
| 29 | The British Consul , Brown , advised all British visitors to return home in case the island was blockaded , and a large group left the island on the Edinburgh Castle , including an important delegation from Britain 's Grand Masonic Lodge which had been in the island to attend the inauguration of a new Masonic temple . |
| 30 | Commending the Criminal Justice Bill to Parliament in 1947 the Home Secretary , Chuter Ede , said that it followed closely on the lines of a Bill which had been before the House of Commons in the session 1938/9 . |