Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 2 | Parliament on June 12 , 1991 , approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne , thus overturning the male-only succession which had been in place since Belgian independence . |
| 3 | The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period . |
| 4 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 5 | The Liebherr LTM 1090 crane replaces a similar capacity vehicle which had been in service at the terminal since May 1982 . |
| 6 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 7 | President Abdou Diouf announced on April 7 that he was appointing the president ( Speaker ) of the National Assembly , Habib Thiam , as Prime Minister , a post which had been in abeyance since 1983 , shortly after Thiam 's removal from it [ see p. 32180 ] . |
| 8 | UPH 's shareholders may wonder why Desmond spent £4.4m of their money on a site which had been on offer for £2.7m . |
| 9 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 10 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 11 | Once the agreement had been reached the National Front-Left Front grouping withdrew its nomination which had been in support of the outgoing Speaker , Rabi Ray . |
| 12 | A major EC loan which had been under negotiation for some months [ see p. 37968 ] was approved on Feb. 25 , 1991 , but was conditional on the implementation of economic measures corresponding to those outlined in the adjustment programme . |
| 13 | On April 23 the Bulgarian National Assembly adopted the privatization bill which had been under discussion since February [ see p. 38776 ] . |
| 14 | Instead , the presidential insignia and other symbols of government were handed over by the president of the anti-communist Polish government which had been in exile in London since 1939 , Ryszard Kaczorowski . |
| 15 | The immediately following articles give the newly independent State the right to succeed to any treaty which had been in force in its territory , regardless of the wishes of any other party to the treaty . |
| 16 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 17 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 18 | The changes , to be implemented in May 1991 , involved the scrapping of the country 's mandatory system of conciliation and arbitration which had been in operation since 1984 . |
| 19 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |
| 20 | The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 . |
| 21 | The two also agreed to extend a ceasefire which had been in place since early May [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |
| 22 | The SNC agreed to contact the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , requesting him to send personnel to control the ceasefire which had been in force in Cambodia since early May . |
| 23 | The firms were also accused of subsequently attempting to conceal the payments which , although not illegal , violated the non-binding guidelines of the Ministry of Finance which had been in effect since December 1989 . |
| 24 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |