Example sentences of "a [noun] which have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |
| 2 | The severity of the sentences served to defuse the explosive ramifications of a case which had been portrayed by members of the black community as a latter-day lynching . |
| 3 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 4 | There is a need to develop flexible budgeting to ensure that actual expenditure is measured against a budget which has been flexed to take account of actual workload ( recognising both volume and mix factors ) . |
| 5 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 6 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 7 | Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) . |
| 8 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 9 | Or you could use a text which has been translated from one medium into another . |
| 10 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 12 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 13 | This requires that answers be precoded so that the responses can be fed straight into a computer which has been programmed to receive them . |
| 14 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 15 | I would n't have thought it 's in the real realms of practical politics to persuade the German government or indeed any other government to renege on a contract which has been signed . |
| 16 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
| 17 | That is a technique which has been practised in this country for many years , and there is now increasing pressure for it , and increasing use of it , in relation to Community legal texts . |
| 18 | A strip which has been missed with the herbicide stands out all season long , to the embarrassment of both spray operator and farmer . |
| 19 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 20 | A framework which has been found to work well in practice is : |
| 21 | In McEwan v. Fort William JJ. , November 18 , 1898 , a licensing court was ordained by the Court of Session to hear and determine , of new , an application for a certificate which had been disposed of out of its proper order . |
| 22 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 23 | ‘ The difference , if any , will be that she will tell a story which has been revised and edited by Tate . ’ |
| 24 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 25 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 26 | For my purposes , it suffices if I say that one of the questions was whether an original lessee is liable to pay a rent which has been increased by a variation in the terms of the lease reached between the assignee and the landlord . |
| 27 | The vapour was escaping from a valve which had been dismantled . |
| 28 | In the Shove case , the compensation was reduced for this reason by 7 per cent , a figure which had been agreed between the parties . |
| 29 | Nero 's adoption of this type of official portrait was an aspect of his revival of the practice of likening the emperor to a god , a practice which had been avoided by the emperors of the previous ninety years ( see also p. 40 ) ; at the same time the choice of this particular model marks a major stage in the growing importance Nero attached to his own theatrical and musical performances which , when given in public , deeply shocked traditional Romans . |
| 30 | It is a practice which has been followed in Ireland , since the High King Erin introduced it . |