Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 2 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 3 | The ‘ strong technical control ’ which had been seen by the CEB men at the centre as essential for efficiency was seen by many in the divisions as an unnecessary drag on initiative and responsibility . |
| 4 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 5 | Ancient customs such as ‘ bundling ’ , intimate but fully clothed and ritualistic forms of petting , cuddling and courtship in bed , which had been policed by local traditions in rural society , continued into industrial society . |
| 6 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 7 | My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail . |
| 8 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 9 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 10 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 11 | Cornburgh , for instance , had organized the finances of the 1481 expedition against the Scots , which had been led by the duke . |
| 12 | The new vice-president was Rock Wamytan , of the Union Calédonie ( UC ) , the more moderate main constituent party of FLNKS , which had been led by Tjibaou until his death . |
| 13 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was selected on June 20 as leader of the second-largest LDP faction which had been led by Shintaro Abe until his death in May . |
| 14 | The Attorney General Rogelio Cruz announced on Oct. 7 that a military coup against President Guillermo Endara Galimany had been thwarted and that four former officers , who had belonged to the now defunct Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) which had been led by the deposed ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega , had been arrested . |
| 15 | Cornburgh , for instance , had organized the finances of the 1481 expedition against the Scots , which had been led by the duke . |
| 16 | The scandal which led to Garrett 's resignation arose from reports that 26 women , including 14 officers , had been sexually molested at the annual convention of the Tailhook Association , a private group of retired and active naval aviators , held in Las Vegas in September 1991 , which had been attended by Garrett . |
| 17 | This company has now expanded to three other yards including the former British Shipbuilders Hadrian Yard ( Clellands ) at Wallsend , and the Wallsend Slip way which had been operated by Howard Doris Ltd. for the offshore industry until the demise of that operation in 1986 . |
| 18 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 19 | B&C acquired Atlantic for £420m in September 1988 , but by April 1990 the company which had been audited by Spicers ( now part of Touche Ross ) between 1983 and June 1989 went into administration . |
| 20 | A majority of seats on the 71-member council were held by the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) [ see p. 37007 ] , which had been supported by the Indian troop presence . |
| 21 | Conciliation commission meetings between Moldovan and Dnestr representatives had little success , however , with the Dnestr parliament on June 17 rejecting proposals on implementing a ceasefire ( which had been supported by the Moldovan parliament on June 9 ) . |
| 22 | The Wasserschutz Polizei , or River Police launch , Whose arrival had been expected much earlier , turned on its blue flashing light and jauntily turned to take station upstream , in order to intercept any barge or ship choosing to ignore the river closure order which had been imposed by the river authorities for the night . |
| 23 | They campaigned strongly against the Household Means Test which had been imposed by the National government at the end of 1931 , and a Policy Sub-Committee of the party , influenced by Hugh Dalton and Herbert Morrison , attended to the issues of unemployment , banking , housing and transport . |
| 24 | Now suddenly he knew that he had been betrayed by the preconceptions which had been imposed by life under the Empire . |
| 25 | In sum , the power to award their own degrees would be conferred only to those institutions which had been accredited by the C.N.A.A . |
| 26 | Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) . |
| 27 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 28 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The context was an action in the Norwegian court to set aside a retrospective tax assessment which had been raised by the Norwegian tax authorities against the estate of a deceased taxpayer who , it was alleged , was the beneficial owner of the assets which he had not declared for tax purposes . |