Example sentences of "which had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 2 | Many settlers found the presence of this armed and organized people on their doorstep unnerving — Delamere , who treated them with a lordly tolerance , conspicuously did not — and so , conscious of the injustice which had been done , did the administration . |
| 3 | Subsequent to the first survey , which had been done very rapidly , Lapworth had established that graptolites held the key to deciphering the succession of the folded and faulted Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the region . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Marshall continued , stressing the amount of work which had been done and offsetting , he hoped , the poor impression caused by his lightheartedness . |
| 8 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 14 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 15 | The Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) , which had been given the task of co-ordinating the various bodies involved , was not over enthusiastic about the project ( Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 17 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 18 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it was the French Communist Party which had been given the task of encouraging communism in Vietnam ; and , it appears , where necessary , correcting its faults . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 26 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 27 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
| 28 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 29 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 30 | The meeting concluded with the unanimous approval of a resolution strongly condemning the policy of forced expulsions — the policy which had been given the name " ethnic cleansing " ( " etnicko ciscenje ) . |