Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Republican candidate Thomas Ewing on July 2 secure election to the House of Representatives seat for Illinois which had been left vacant by the appointment , confirmed in March , of Edward Madigan as Secretary for Agriculture . |
| 2 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 3 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 4 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 5 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 6 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 7 | It was the silver figure of Christ which had been mounted on the ivory cross behind his desk . |
| 8 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 9 | In repeated calls for a spiritual crusade by believers to reclaim for Christianity the states of Europe which had been lost to communism , the Pope attacked abortion , implicitly criticizing the Sejm |
| 10 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 11 | On Dec. 26 the US administration renewed for six months the economic sanctions against Libya which had been imposed in January 1986 . |
| 12 | Japan announced on Nov. 2 that it would reactivate a development loan programme for China which had been frozen after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 13 | On Oct. 17 sources in Saudi Arabia said that it had been decided to renew economic relations with Jordan which had been suspended since the Gulf War . |
| 14 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 15 | Though towns such as Thirsk which had been by-passed by the railways had lost some of their former vitality , others continued to expand , to rebuild and to prosper during the Victorian era . |
| 16 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 17 | The plan is in the form of a Greek cross with arms of equal length and it is based upon the design of the famous Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople which had been begun by Constantine and rebuilt by Justinian but which was destroyed in 1463 . |
| 18 | The catalyst was the Crichel Down Enquiry in 1954 by the Minister of Agriculture into the sale and subsequent choosing of a tenant for Crichel Down in Dorset which had been purchased during the war as a bombing range ( Griffith , 1955 ) . |
| 19 | The regulations were intended to prevent the sort of scenes witnessed in Shanghai which had been broadcast across the world . |
| 20 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 21 | The 159 galleries in Holland which had been selected to sell under the scheme , occasionally got rid of old stock by artists long dead , or even sold objects which did not fall under the category of works for which the system had been intended . |
| 22 | However , in 1937 Herbert had the idea of sending John to Summerhill , a school in Suffolk which had been founded by A. S. Neill , a teacher famous ( at that time many would have said notorious ) for his views on freedom in education . |
| 23 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 24 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 25 | On Aug. 30 Canada resumed shipments of wheat to Russia which had been interrupted from Aug. 18 because of payment arrears . |
| 26 | The open conflict of early 1988 was precipitated , it appears , by the rejection by the central party authorities of an appeal for Nagorno-Karabakh to be returned to Armenia which had been signed by 75,000 Karabakh Armenians . |
| 27 | ( The Japanese government nevertheless announced that it would resume a major aid programme to China which had been frozen in 1989 , arguing that it was not in the interest of the world to try to isolate China . ) |
| 28 | In November 1990 Japan had reactivated a development loan programme to China which had been frozen after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 29 | This issue ( together with the long-running territorial dispute over the disputed Senkaku islands ) soured relations somewhat with China towards the end of 1990 , even though earlier in the year Japan had been in the forefront of those countries arguing for a resumption of the aid to China which had been suspended after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 30 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |