Example sentences of "in which he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 2 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 3 | Yet for all that he no longer believed the creed in which he had been raised : for all that he fought for a king against an upstart general , for the old order against the new , Karelius recognized that at heart he would always be one of Cromwell 's men . |
| 4 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 5 | He displayed gratification through all the entertainments that took place during and after the feast , and took the floor with the rest during the slow , formal dancing , in which he had been well taught by the various females attracted to his brake and his burrow . |
| 6 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 7 | In the year in which he had been born , 1846 , the Secretary of the Education Committee — a certain James Kay-Shuttleworth — had introduced a system of apprentice schoolmasters ; the trainee had to be at least 13 years old , be able to read with ‘ fluency , ease and expression ’ , write neatly and accurately , and understand the essentials of arithmetic and the system of weights and measures . |
| 8 | I wanted to include his doctors and nurses at both hospitals in which he had been a patient , and our friends in the residential home . |
| 9 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 10 | In their emphasis on ritual and doctrine he sensed the same danger of a too purely objective conception of faith as in the rigid understanding of man , sin and atonement in which he had been brought up , and which , like Erskine and Campbell , he rejected . |
| 11 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 12 | Nottinghamshire club player Bryn Derbyshire was given a three-month suspended sentence with £300 costs , and had to pay £400 compensation to umpire Joseph Purser after causing ‘ bodily harm by wanton furious driving ’ by reversing his car at the umpire after a match in which he had been given out lbw . |
| 13 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 14 | In his evidence , Price described in detail the dealings in cannabis in which he had been involved . |
| 15 | He was buried in St Margaret 's church , King 's Lynn , in which he had been baptized and married . |
| 16 | He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down . |
| 17 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 18 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 19 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 20 | Autumn , the season in which he had been born , was here again . |
| 21 | For Maria , and perhaps even for Luke , the evening finally came to mean something when , having done his duty as an announcer , Florian Jones was called up on stage once more as the winner of the radio category in which he had been nominated . |
| 22 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 23 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 24 | The experience of some players becoming emotionally spent in such circumstances is all too fresh from Derek White 's swansong at Cardiff last year — a performance which Scotland captain Gavin Hastings rated as one of the poorest in which he had been involved . |
| 25 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 26 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 27 | Much thanks to John and many others in the R Y A who helped with training and preparing er that er expedition and then in the World Disabled Championships in Barcelona , Kevin who has one of our Challenger catamarans , in which he 's been national champion seven times . |
| 28 | Augustine recognizes that his desire for God is part of the way in which he has been made . |
| 29 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 30 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |