Example sentences of "some [prep] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In one case five fire extinguishers in the same room were found to be empty — some of which had been used by workmen to get rid of dust . |
| 4 | The door was secured by eight clamps , some of which had been jammed into position by the impact of the blast . |
| 5 | A number of museums wanted the works , some of which had been on loan to The Metropolitan . |
| 6 | In the pre-unified past , Sotheby 's sold , without a peep of protest , a Pater and Lancret that had been looted from Potsdam ( The Art Newspaper , No. 1 , October 1990 , p. 1 ) ( subsequently reacquired ) , and negotiated with the Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin-Dahlem , in the sale of drawings from the Theodor Allan Heinrich estate , some of which had been looted . |
| 7 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 8 | Nearly all our crew were to tell us harrowing anecdotes of personal encounters with hungry pythons — some of which had been measured at over twenty-eight feet long . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under Dušan the Serbs had encouraged German miners ( known as Saxons ) from Transylvania to develop the mines of Kosovo , some of which had been worked in Roman times . |
| 11 | There were supposed irregularities in the cheques , some of which had been endorsed over to third parties allegedly in breach of authority , so the administrators issued but did not serve a protective writ . |
| 12 | no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades . |
| 13 | We spent most of that first day walking around the town looking at the historical buildings some of which had been there since the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 14 | Following the dinner , a slide presentation of some of the matches held at Auchterader were shown by Pat McGrath who had captured the day on film — some of which had been published in the previous issue of the Glenpatrick News . |