Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 2 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 3 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 4 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 5 | Most important was losing inches off my hips , which I have n't been able to do before … . ‘ |
| 6 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 7 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 8 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 9 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 10 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 11 | The collector , then , will always examine the evidence that his book is complete in every respect and , as well as all the trimmings with which we have temporarily been preoccupied , will carefully test the completeness of the text itself . |
| 12 | Three members of the audience were then selected at random and , having ascertained that they had no objection , were hypnotised and , while in the hypnotic state , were asked those questions which they had formerly been unable to answer . |
| 13 | The local gentry and others were presented for taking the deer , which they had probably been accustomed to do for generations with little interference . |
| 14 | Abolitionists were also therefore demanding direct intervention by the imperial government to end a species of property and override the role of local assemblies with which they had earlier been prepared to collaborate . |
| 15 | There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out . |
| 16 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 17 | These are all examples of ways in which people learn to live with long-term social difficulties which they have not been able to change . |
| 18 | His approach was to try out ideas , with which he had already been successful , on other people and to listen to what came back — particularly from governors and senior staff . |
| 19 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 20 | The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine " megalomartyr " Menignos , relocated in Dijon , and the whole Benignus dossier is probably best interpreted as the response of a bishop to a non-Christian cult which he had not been able to stamp out . |
| 21 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 22 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 23 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 24 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 25 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 26 | The chief weakness of the House of Commons is in matters of taxation ; the way in which it has not been able to keep pace with administrative developments is that it has no method of collecting information ( other than the briefing from outside pressure groups already mentioned ) on the social and other side-effects of a tax or of examining possible future departures in taxation policy . |
| 27 | These eight tasks of audit can not be carried out in smaller schools — schools in which it has never been possible to develop subject differentiation to the same degree as in larger schools . |