Example sentences of "which had been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 2 | Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers . |
| 3 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 4 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 5 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
| 6 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |