Example sentences of "which had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the American war its establishment , which had been 2,738 in 1714 , had risen to 4,910 — twice as large as the rest of the financial administration . |
| 2 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 3 | He had no wish to confess that he had visited Madame Mantela , a lady palmist in Margate , in order to discover what his future might hold , the results of which had been far from reassuring . |
| 4 | He refused to continue the legacy of executions which had been symptomatic of his father 's regime . |
| 5 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
| 6 | From every standpoint , the initiatives taken by the Cambridge Board had been entirely beneficial : to students , LEAs and , not least , to the District which had been relieved of significant administrative and financial burdens . |
| 7 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 8 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 9 | A generation later the political opportunities which had been available in the middle of the fifth century were closed , but equally the restrictions of the 470s had lifted . |
| 10 | The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years . |
| 11 | In it , Younger stressed the need for additional alternatives to custodial sentences , which had been implicit in the decision to ask the Council to undertake the enquiry . |
| 12 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 13 | FIG. 2 Translocation of 11 C-labelled photosynthate out of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling which had been pulse-labelled with 11 CO 2 at time zero . |
| 14 | Sales of polythene and PVC , which had been two of ICI 's mainstay products , had suddenly plummeted . |
| 15 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 16 | He was now able to pursue his appreciation and devotion to metallurgy , which had been first inspired by his mechanical engineering studies at Mason College . |
| 17 | The innate vivacity which had been one of her main attractions , seemed to have deserted her . |
| 18 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 19 | The process , which had been one of the original aims of Schuman and Monnet , was to culminate in a formal treaty of friendship in 1963 . |
| 20 | Government involvement in the planning of the use of national resources , which had been one of the necessities of wartime , was continued by the Labour government as a matter of principle . |
| 21 | Well-meaning and pious , he was of mediocre intelligence and inherited the timidity which had been one of Louis XV 's greatest weaknesses . |
| 22 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 23 | Meanwhile member countries sought to agree on measures to introduce a single internal market within the EC by Jan. 1 , 1993 , as agreed under the Single European Act which had been effective since July 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 34107-08 for terms ] . |
| 24 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 25 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 26 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 27 | He replaced Mikhail Nenashev , who returned to the post of Chair of the USSR State Committee for the Press , which he had held in 1986-89 , and which had been vacant since the removal of Nikolai Yefimov at the end of July . |
| 28 | On Jan. 25 Havel appointed Jozef Baksay from Public Against Violence ( PAV ) as Minister of Foreign Trade , a post which had been vacant since the death of Slavomir Stracar in August 1990 [ see p. 37737 ] . |
| 29 | Khamphoui Keoboualapha was appointed as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Planning and Finance , a post which had been vacant since the death of Sali Vongkhamsao in January 1991 [ see p. 37963 ] . |
| 30 | Thrush Green stood on high ground at the northerly end of Lulling , a small sleepy prosperous town , which had been famous in the days of the wool trade . |