Example sentences of "[adj] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with . |
| 2 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 3 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 4 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 5 | Winston Churchill died in 1965 and was given a State funeral comparable to that which had been afforded to the Duke of Wellington . |
| 6 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 7 | Supporting this was a further partnership , that which had been established almost informally between each teaching force and the local authority for whom they worked . |
| 8 | But as a bolide descends to lower altitudes , C H declines inversely with atmospheric density , so that which had been increasing , becomes effectively constant . |
| 9 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 10 | Strong instructions went out to fields reviewing their progress and preparing proposals that there should be as little change as possible from that which had been originally approved . |
| 11 | The total sum was significantly higher than that which had been anticipated . |
| 12 | These included minimizing the deployment of the plainclothes units — the so-called " Skeleton Corps " — whose function it was to pursue and arrest protesters , reducing the use of tear gas , and prohibiting the use by riot police of equipment ( such as steel pipes ) other than that which had been officially provided . |
| 13 | This high-profile strategy to shape the public perception of Thomas was based upon that which had been successfully deployed prior to the confirmation of Bush 's previous appointee to the court , David Souter [ see pp. 37703-04 ] . |
| 14 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 15 | The bill , which was likely to be considered by the full Senate after the summer recess , was similar to that which had been approved by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives on June 30 . |
| 16 | In an attempt to avoid rural unrest , Chamorro confirmed that it would be impossible to return land confiscated and distributed among peasants who now held legal title or that which had been confiscated for important public purposes . |
| 17 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 18 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 19 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 20 | The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921 . |
| 21 | When Aramco was told to cut production by 10 per cent and then , on top of that , shut in liftings equivalent to that which had been produced for ultimate sale to the USA in pre-embargo months , the company dutifully cut production back 23 per cent below September levels . |
| 22 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |
| 23 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 24 | In his speech on 26 March Gorbachev reiterated the Soviet proposals for the Mediterranean which had been issued previously following discussions with Malta . |
| 25 | There were fifteen saloons , known as Box-cars , and the remainder were crossbench open-sided cars of varied designs , including three which had been trailers . |
| 26 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 27 | Presented on Nov. 28 and given a first reading on Dec. 1 , the new law had replaced an initial draft of Nov. 5 which had been immediately rejected . |
| 28 | In June 1830 , the Duke of Bedford presented a small bronze bust of Samuel Whitbread II which had been executed by George Garrard in 1820 . |
| 29 | All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm . |
| 30 | According to the proposed US schedule the Johnston incinerator — the only such facility currently in existence — would undergo 16 months of testing before beginning to destroy chemical weapons already stored on the atoll ( those which had been removed from Okinawa in 1971 ) , and would then incinerate those weapons currently based in West Germany . |