Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 6 | The forerunners of the railway stations of the Trans-Siberian were the ètapes , the stockaded rest stations with barrack-like rooms , and the post-houses which had been built across Siberia earlier in the century . |
| 7 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The new vice-president was Rock Wamytan , of the Union Calédonie ( UC ) , the more moderate main constituent party of FLNKS , which had been led by Tjibaou until his death . |
| 10 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was selected on June 20 as leader of the second-largest LDP faction which had been led by Shintaro Abe until his death in May . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |
| 12 | The scandal which led to Garrett 's resignation arose from reports that 26 women , including 14 officers , had been sexually molested at the annual convention of the Tailhook Association , a private group of retired and active naval aviators , held in Las Vegas in September 1991 , which had been attended by Garrett . |
| 13 | This company has now expanded to three other yards including the former British Shipbuilders Hadrian Yard ( Clellands ) at Wallsend , and the Wallsend Slip way which had been operated by Howard Doris Ltd. for the offshore industry until the demise of that operation in 1986 . |
| 14 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 15 | B&C acquired Atlantic for £420m in September 1988 , but by April 1990 the company which had been audited by Spicers ( now part of Touche Ross ) between 1983 and June 1989 went into administration . |
| 16 | The aim of this survey was to measure usage rates and safety levels of LGS in unions which had been visited during Phase 1 , Phase 2 ( standard ) and Phase 2 ( CRP ) . |
| 17 | With independence , came freedom to assess the appropriateness of the US constitutional model which had been imposed on Japan . |
| 18 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 19 | Now suddenly he knew that he had been betrayed by the preconceptions which had been imposed by life under the Empire . |
| 20 | On Dec. 26 the US administration renewed for six months the economic sanctions against Libya which had been imposed in January 1986 . |
| 21 | President 's rule , which had been imposed in December after the PDF 's main component , the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , withdrew from the PDF , was lifted in late January 1991 and the leader of the breakaway MGP group , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister [ see p. 37915 ; 37964 ] . |
| 22 | The martial law order , which had been imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest [ see pp. 36521-22 ] , was rescinded by Chinese Premier Li Peng on the grounds that " the situation in Lhasa has become stable and social order has returned to normal " . |
| 23 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 24 | They unrolled the map which had been tucked in Snodgrass 's cloak and spread it out carefully on the ground . |
| 25 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 26 | Note that these resonators were cylindrical extensions of Hertzian loops , the resonant wavelength of which had been calculated by Hector Macdonald of Aberdeen in 1902 as 7.94 x the diameter of the loop . |
| 27 | She told me that there was some money in a bank account which had been raised in memory of her daughter . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it is worth noting that although the proportion of English-language material which had been obtained by purchase was small ( 4% , as opposed to 93% in the case of foreign-language material ) , because the number of items involved was substantially higher , in numerical terms these items — many of them probably North American publications — outnumbered non-English-language purchases by a factor of three to one . |
| 29 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 30 | Until 1960 nothing was known of it except a handful of historical references and a poem of 76 hexameter-lines in praise of the church 's founder , Anicia Juliana.The poem , which had been carved in letters 11 centimetres high on the walls of the church itself , was copied in a manuscript of the 10th century and is preserved in full in the Palatine Anthology , a medieval collection of ancient epigrams . |