Example sentences of "[Wh det] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 32 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 33 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 34 | The sheer size of the task in fact prompted the EC Commission to doubt whether the traditional approach to the standards problem , which had been adopted prior to the SEA , was any longer appropriate . |
| 35 | A system with historic origins which had been made democratic in the nineteenth century was reorganized on a two-tier basis after a series of reports . |
| 36 | The ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) suffered a humiliating by-election defeat on April 11 in Wills , an inner-city constituency in Melbourne , which had been made vacant by the retirement of former ALP federal leader and Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 37 | This was in 1976 , when the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons was refused access to a programme analysis and review ( PAR ) study on educational planning which had been made available to the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and referred to at length in one of their publications . |
| 38 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 39 | Even English seaside resorts , which had been made popular through royal patronage , saw relatively few visitors . |
| 40 | First , whether in or out , we would bear the cost of supporting the economies which had been made non-viable by the single currency . |
| 41 | Mr Beckenham remained only the one night at Merchiston Lodge , sleeping in the room next to Araminta 's , which had been made ready for him . |
| 42 | They crossed the jetty to a large wooden door , which had been propped open with a three-legged stool . |
| 43 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 44 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 47 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 48 | He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged . |
| 49 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 50 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 51 | On July 5 it was announced that the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) had secured five of the 10 mayoralities of provincial capitals which had been left undecided in June pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities . |
| 52 | However , Ra squeamishly refused to witness the slaughter , so he flooded the fields where his subjects were with beer which had been dyed red with pomegranate juice to resemble blood . |
| 53 | He righted his spectacles which had been knocked askew and straightened his cloak . |
| 54 | Fried artichoke hearts stood arranged around hard-boiled eggs which had been tinted pink and yellow and scarlet and blue in honour of Easter Day . |
| 55 | Lachlan , a bandage round his left thigh which had been axed open to the bone , growled from his stool , but Hector nodded . |
| 56 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 57 | In 1323 the Justices of the Forest were ordered to recall all the royal demesne woods which had been disafforested contrary to the Charter of the Forest : Henry Scrope , appointed Justice of the Forest north of Trent on 10 September , reafforested thirty-three townships in the Forest of Galtres alone . |
| 58 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |
| 59 | But the heavy rain has been welcomed by the British Waterways , as a much needed boost for its canals and reservoirs which have been kept low during this year 's long , hot summer . |
| 60 | This continues the series of major loan exhibitions from the British Museum to the University of East Anglia past subjects include Benin bronzes which have been made possible due to the high standard of the exhibition space , security arrangements and environment control in Norwich , which meets the Museum 's stringent loan requirements . |