Example sentences of "[Wh det] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always wanted to see Harar , which had been Burton 's objective in 1855 . |
| 2 | There are still old Newfoundlanders around who chopped down their maple trees and ripped ’ O Canada ’ from their song-books on March 31 1949 , when the proud island which had been England 's oldest colony joined the Canadian confederation . |
| 3 | Pauca sed matura ’ , ( few but ripe ) , which had been Gauss 's motto , became Smith 's also . |
| 4 | The big American computer users — such as Boeing and General Motors — which had been pioneers of intra-company networks , were also natural supporters of OSI . |
| 5 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 6 | On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] . |
| 7 | The art awards , he continued , were in keeping with the best traditions of the P&O SN Co , which had been part if the maritime history and development of Australia since 1852 . |
| 8 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 9 | Lorton was in the room which had been Arabella 's studio . |
| 10 | The black creature which had been Meh'Lindi undogged the door and darted into a wide corridor , misty with smoke . |
| 11 | During October the European free market price for 99.5 per cent pure cobalt , which had been £15 per lb ( roughly $33 000 per tonne ; £1 = $1.80 ) — or as low as $11 per lb for long term contracts direct with supplier — shot up to around $30 per lb . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 13 | Browne has noted that the early drafts he received , together with a synopsis of the action , already suggested the shape of the complete play — quite unlike the false starts and extensive rewriting which had been Eliot 's procedure in his earlier work ; Browne explained this in terms of his " greater self-confidence as a playwright " . |
| 14 | He took the car which had been Grégoire 's favourite and also , by chance , Isobel 's . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been competitors , employers resorted to attempts to reduce monetary wages , an action which was given an additional downward twist by the Baldwin government 's decisions to return to the gold standard and to reflate the pound in 1925 . |
| 17 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 18 | Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 . |
| 19 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 20 | One office conversion which had been 60% complete at the end of 1989 was completed in 1990 at a price of £40,000 . |
| 21 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
| 22 | 664 more than a shadow of the influence in southern England which had been Eadwine 's or Oswald 's . |
| 23 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 24 | In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour . |
| 25 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 26 | A straight , imposing avenue was required to link the palace with the north-south axis of roads which had been Bucharest 's traditional main line of communication . |
| 27 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 28 | On Oct. 18 the Bundesrat ( upper house ) unanimously elected Alfred Gomolka , Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , as its president for the coming year , the first holder of this office from what had been East Germany . |
| 29 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 30 | For a moment the Emperor would notice at least the aftermath of Lexandro 's existence … before what had been Lexandro dispersed . |