Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 2 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 3 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 4 | Zoser , as rigid as Andrus and far less intelligent , had taken it upon himself to put right the wrong which had been done to his friend and his church . |
| 5 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 6 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 7 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 8 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 9 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 10 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | It was suggested that the League should concentrate on recreational and educational activities and that the age limit , which had been raised to 25 in 1926 , should be progressively reduced to 11 by 1939 . |
| 13 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 14 | The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location . |
| 15 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 16 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 17 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |
| 18 | Instead it was named " Stockport School " , thus using one of the names which had been applied to Sir Edmond 's Foundation , probably from its earliest days , though the first written reference dates only from 1597 . |
| 19 | It also needed to collect the cases which had been referred to the consultancy service . |
| 20 | The magazine could not prove the truth of this statement , which it had sourced to an MI5 report , but it claimed to be able to justify the " sting " of the libel , namely that the plaintiff was a person given to extra-marital affairs , a number of which had been referred to in the article without attracting complaint . |
| 21 | Our makeshift seat had consisted of cases of wine while bottles of brandy were distributed liberally amongst the boys ' bedding , none of which had been declared to us , of course . |
| 22 | The ambition was fulfilled earlier this year , when the building which had been converted to offices for many years , was restored to the splendour which is now The Regent London . |
| 23 | The old books were stored in a room which had been converted to an office for the new library . |
| 24 | Mr Baillie said the part of the building which had been converted to offices was no longer suitable for care of the elderly and could not have been adapted economically . |
| 25 | The glittering green Christmas decorations which had been Sellotaped to the ceiling and walls swayed crazily as if the whole office block was tilting . |
| 26 | Champneys was one of a number of prominent London instrument-makers who brought a petition against Peter Dollond [ q.v. ] in 1764 to annul ( unsuccessfully as it turned out ) the achromatic lens patent which had been granted to Dollond 's father in 1758 . |
| 27 | The ancient payments of Peter 's Pence , which had been granted to the popes by early monarchs , were received from England , the Scandinavian kingdoms and Poland . |
| 28 | Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) . |
| 29 | They are first , whether Winchester was a member of Lautro and second , whether Winchester , either as a member or as a non-member , had any right of appeal against the decision of 30 October 1990 which had been denied to them . |
| 30 | Once he had been chieftain over the lands which had been rewarded to Richard Carew for his services to Oliver Cromwell . |