Example sentences of "which [verb] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Next is Upton Mill , which has been converted for residential use .
2 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
3 Charlemagne , a little book which has been written for 12 to 16 year olds ( but suitable for all ages ) would make an ideal present .
4 Wirral Council 's planning committee will tonight discuss the future of the 25-acre Bromb-orough Power Station site which has been earmarked for industrial use .
5 We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years .
6 A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address .
7 The El Niño climate phenomenon , which has been blamed for widespread droughts in southern Africa , Australia and south-east Asia [ see EDs 57 , 55 ] appears to be over .
8 Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks .
9 This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board .
10 Take the High Road , which has been running for 13 years , does n't make the ratings tables because it is not slotted in a peak viewing time across the country .
11 The worry for regular viewers to the series which has been running for 19 years , is that the ethos of the programme may be changed to pander to the larger English audience .
12 But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year .
13 Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people .
14 This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years .
15 The Milk Race , which has been running for 25 years , is like a wagon train as it winds its way through the country .
16 In all they 've questioned twelve present and former members of staff from the school , which has been closed for four months .
17 I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks .
18 There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live .
19 But for this House to depart from a rule relating to land law which has been established for many centuries might upset long established titles .
20 The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research .
21 A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social .
22 The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy .
23 There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions .
24 For up-market small-party charter hire , InterCity also procured the former London Midland Region general manager 's saloon No 6320 — something of a hybrid , comprising a special body on a Mk 1 underframe and B4 bogies , which had been converted for dual braking and electric train heating .
25 The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions .
26 Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years .
27 As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests .
28 Survival , l(x) , and fertility , m(x) , in the two sexes , as a function of time since eclosion , for lines of Drosophila melanogaster which had been selected for early or late reproduction .
29 Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years .
30 The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 .
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