Example sentences of "[verb] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 2 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 3 | In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA . |
| 4 | In the second case , the Law Lords reinstated a £12,000 damages award which had been cancelled by the Court of Appeal . |
| 5 | SNM leaders had not accepted an invitation to attend which had been extended by the USC 's interim government on May 26 . |
| 6 | On Feb. 14 Chiluba and UK Prime Minister John Major signed agreements rescheduling Zambia 's 1992 debt obligations to the UK and releasing £10,000,000 balance-of-payments support which had been suspended pending the implementation of economic reforms . |
| 7 | It was established that the camera had been working and a video tape had been made which had been viewed by the police officers in charge of the case . |
| 8 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 9 | A delegation of the residents complained that they were not getting the priority in rehousing which had been promised them and demanded to know whether or not they would be moved before the winter . |
| 10 | Their design was a radical departure from the traditional concept of a tramcar , and incorporated features of styling and comfort which had been seen only in motor-coaches of the day . |
| 11 | The exception was an act relating to paper making which had been passed in 1796 . |
| 12 | Of the Liberty and Equality too long denied which had been so bloodily taken ? |
| 13 | Beneath my feet and beside me to my right , were the sheer pale grey rocks that were the andesitic relics of all the ancient turbulence and torture which had been and was still being caused by the plates ' gentle , turgid but quite inevitable meeting . |
| 14 | The team headed by Michel Desgranges which had been due to leave Iraq on March 13 , postponed its departure after the discovery of hundreds of additional leaking chemical rockets . |
| 15 | Other economic achievements of the late eighteenth century were the draining of the marshes in the old lake bed of the Ljubljansko Barje — work which had been started in Roman times and is still not completed — the introduction of maize and potatoes into the crop rotation , the expansion of viticulture and the development of the textile industry . |
| 16 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 17 | The duplicate tickets were also altered and all the remaining tickets written over so it would be impossible to tell which had been changed . |
| 18 | Nonetheless the resurgence of anti-American feeling within sections of the Labour party — feeling which had been broadly silenced by Soviet moves from 1948 — persisted , and it was further stimulated by the sharp increases in British defence spending and the damaging effects these had upon the government 's domestic programme . |