Example sentences of "[indef pn] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 2 | In support of the proprietary argument the plaintiffs resorted to an analogy with the position of a trustee in bankruptcy , whose right and duty it was to get in everything which had been owned by the bankrupt , including his business documents . |
| 3 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |
| 4 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 5 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 6 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 7 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 8 | Julia was aware of something which had been planned beforehand yet it did not discomfort her . |
| 9 | Something which had been out of place ? |
| 10 | Later that day , in the early afternoon , Matey was instructing McAllister in how to knit — something which had been left out of her previous education . |
| 11 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 12 | Or had something which had been brought back from Romania in another golf bag been fitted inside it ? |
| 13 | One example was at London Zoo when a polar bear called Brumas died at the age of nine because he ate something which had been thrown into his enclosure . |
| 14 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 15 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 16 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 17 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 18 | His was a series which I selected , one which had been turned down by one of my more ‘ authentic ’ colleagues , but it was a wonderful success . |
| 19 | In the main square ( Largo do Fonte ) in Monte there is a shrine with the Virgin of Monte in it , built in 1897 to replace the original one which had been destroyed when one of the large chestnut trees fell on it . |
| 20 | 3 ) , similar to one which had been advanced before the High Court of Australia in Jago v. District Court of New South Wales ( 1989 ) 168 C.L.R. 23 . |
| 21 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 22 | The feature usually described as predominant in Gothic buildings is the use of the pointed arch in place of the semi-circular one which had been employed in both Roman and Romanesque structures . |
| 23 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 24 | Indeed , political argument , policy-making and economic analysis were suffused with an increasing flow of statistical data which in range and scale was quite unlike anything which had been experienced before : to such a degree that by the end of the period under review the rate at which data were being generated exceeded , probably by a wide margin , the capacity to apply them in practical economic action . |
| 25 | ‘ The engine then answered so much better than anything which had been tried before that the same principle has been followed ever since . ’ |