Example sentences of "[prep] which had be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property .
2 The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] .
3 The veto was the 31st of the Bush presidency , all of which had been upheld .
4 Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) .
5 Note that these resonators were cylindrical extensions of Hertzian loops , the resonant wavelength of which had been calculated by Hector Macdonald of Aberdeen in 1902 as 7.94 x the diameter of the loop .
6 The guardians undertook to supply medicines and the necessary appliances — the cost of which had been borne by his predecessors .
7 Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement .
8 In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service .
9 This is " taken down " by the students as if it were some original and astounding promulgation , no item of which had been heard before .
10 It was the 16th veto of Bush 's presidency , all of which had been sustained .
11 I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed .
12 My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail .
13 Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform .
14 Two formica sculptures by Richard Artschwager , ‘ Book II ( Nike ) ’ ( lot 38 , est. $150–200,000 ) and ‘ Chair ’ ( lot 40 , est. $80–100,000 ) , both of which had been exhibited at the Saatchi Collection last summer , sold inexpensively for $100,000 ( £55,600 ) and $50,000 ( £27,800 ) respectively .
15 In 1324 war broke out between England and France over the destruction by the Seneschal of Gascony of the fortress of Saint Sardos on the border between Gascony and the Agenais , the building of which had been authorized by Charles IV of France in the previous year .
16 John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender .
17 Eventually Mr Holdsworth was summoned to attend a Council committee at which he was presented with a list of 26 disciplinary offences , none of which had been raised with him before his suspension .
18 The Common contained a disused quarry , two ponds and a steep-sided stream , all of which had been fenced off after years of complaint .
19 In addition aid money from the food programme , which by 1989 was worth $1,300 million per year to Iraq in loan guarantees , was channelled through the Atlanta branch of the Italian-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro , officials of which had been indicted for a separate multi-million dollar fraud involving arms for Iraq in 1989 [ see pp. 37425-26 ] .
20 The 12th People 's Great Hural , members of which had been elected in the country 's first multiparty elections held in July [ see p. 37656 ] , met for its first session on Sept. 3-11 .
21 Initially , two application packages were examined , both of which had been developed for privately run EPHs and emphasised the medical aspects of residential care .
22 The door was secured by eight clamps , some of which had been jammed into position by the impact of the blast .
23 At the time of her launching Searcher was still far from completed and much work remained to be carried out , including the installation of the Paxman Valenta engines , delivery of which had been delayed .
24 There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital .
25 It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed .
26 In another case , the National Union of Mineworkers was fined £200,000 for refusal to obey an interim injunction and the judge ordered sequestration of its assets , some of which had been transferred abroad .
27 The raids were centred on the towns of Nablus , Ramallah and El-Bireh , all of which had been placed under curfew beforehand .
28 The exhibition Ladislav wanted me to see and which he had not yet seen himself , was a series of documents and photographs relating to the events of 1968 , none of which had been made public before .
29 It was later revealed that this was the 15th such shipment to Israel since October 1990 ( the majority of which had been made under BND auspices ) .
30 Wearing his other hat of H Buckley and Sons , he was responsible for the 3,000 kilos of potatoes and 700 kilos of onions , some of which had been grown by the pupils of Scissett Middle School as part of their rural studies .
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