Example sentences of "[noun pl] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 2 | He said all the animals appeared to be domestic pets which had been dumped in the park , including a couple of angoras . |
| 3 | On the final part of their walk they had passed by numerous strange and wondrous animals which had been frozen as they ate , slept or strolled . |
| 4 | A Scottish Agricultural College vet , Phil Scott , appealed to farmers to consider disease prevention rather than cures , saying that it was much cheaper to spend money on vaccines than have to spend perhaps £30 on treating a single calf which in any event was unlikely to match the performance of those animals which had been vaccinated . |
| 5 | The carrots which had been brought in were eaten between friends or carried away to does and families in burrows all over the warren . |
| 6 | So it was that R. Kuhn , in Switzerland , administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed . |
| 7 | To some extent these problems were ones engendered by the methods which had been used . |
| 8 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 9 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 10 | Tactics which had been honed in the petty but ruthless world of student-union politics were now deployed in party meetings with devastating results . |
| 11 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 12 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 13 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |
| 14 | That was the end of the cinematic euphemisms for making love the misty dissolve , the rocketing fireworks or rearing waves which had been the director 's equivalent of the novelist 's three dots … |
| 15 | One segment showed a whale-like troop carrier descending towards the world below , carrying one of the regiments of Imperial Guards which had been ordered to attend this conflict , years since in realtime . |
| 16 | He righted his spectacles which had been knocked askew and straightened his cloak . |
| 17 | Calgary & Edmonton Land Co . Ltd. v. Discount Bank ( Overseas ) Ltd. [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 81 concerned cautions which had been entered on the register in order to protect interests claimed in a pending action . |
| 18 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 19 | They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock . |
| 20 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 22 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 23 | Athelstan thought the odour came from that but , looking around , he saw the rotting heads which had been placed on spikes in the gaps of the crenellated wall . |
| 24 | He is known to have robbed his father by gambling away funds which had been entrusted to him , and then to have sunk into desperate poverty . |
| 25 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 26 | Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use . |
| 27 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 28 | In most cases the thieves targeted cars which had been left with bags or other valuables clearly visible . |
| 29 | There was a wide range of dolls , cars , and gadgets which had been donated to the private collection over many years . |
| 30 | Within four years of the passing of the Education Act , the few schools which had been established closed their doors , with the single exception of Rugby . |