Example sentences of "which the [noun pl] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
| 2 | These are done using the formula Wealth 1 — Wealth 0 as illustrated in the chapter as this is the only way of calculating profit to which the students have been exposed to date . |
| 3 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 4 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 5 | This inquiry can not be conducted in isolation from the general developments that have occurred in connection with judicial review of executive authority , an area in which the courts have been extremely active . |
| 6 | The predictable result of this has been a plethora of cases in which the courts have been called upon to rule in what circumstances an assault may be described as sexual . |
| 7 | In sum , then , there is no reason to believe that , in a complex machine , the real processes can be inferred reliably from any number of observations of internal behaviour ( in the sense in which the changing of register contents expressed in binary numbers is internal behaviour ) , in the absence of knowledge of a quite different type : the language in which the processes have been expressed to the machine . |
| 8 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 9 | Drawings of sections usually portray everything that can be seen , including the boundaries between layers , because this information may provide clues to the processes by which the layers have been deposited . |
| 10 | Pressed by the men , they offered various compromises at the April 1910 negotiations of which the minutes have been kept . " |
| 11 | To put these contentions into effect the applicant made two applications in the district court to which the cases had been transferred . |
| 12 | Elementary description had a natural place particularly where " errors of description " had been excepted and the courts tended to discover some measure of description by which the goods had been sold ( see for example Taylor v Bullen ( 1850 ) 5 Ex 779 ) . |
| 13 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 14 | Kindred spirits reaffirmed loyalties which the authorities had been trying to suppress . |
| 15 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 16 | There was no suggestion that an innocent recipient should be permitted to use the documents ( by the same token there was no suggestion that the recipients were innocent of the means by which the documents had been obtained ) . |
| 17 | The difference is partly due , we suspect , to Cox 's own bias in the selection and interpretation of her data ; a bias just as strong as — though , of course , in the opposite direction from — that of which the pathographers have been accused . |
| 18 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 19 | Paragraph 30 of the statement of claim in its original form pleaded that investors who had purchased Euramco shares had suffered loss as a result of the breaches of the Act by Pantell S.A. in which the solicitors had been knowingly concerned . |
| 20 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
| 21 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 22 | But now questions are being asked about the conditions in which the girls have been obliged to live to produce such results . |
| 23 | One such was David Gentleman who was impressed by the apparent ease with which the drawings had been produced . |
| 24 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery , without human beings in them , and by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see and are now being seen again . |
| 25 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery without human beings in them , and , by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see , and are now being seen again . |
| 26 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 27 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 28 | As I eased the Transit over some of the more violent ruts in the track , I noticed that one of the lean-tos was in fact an old single decker bus from which the wheels had been removed . |
| 29 | It is therefore in the context in which the skills have been taught , isolated from the curriculum and from other class work , that the greatest failing in school library instruction has been observed . |
| 30 | It arises from the innocence of his guts towards bugs which the locals have been ingesting since birth . |