Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) .
2 The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument .
3 A number of museums wanted the works , some of which had been on loan to The Metropolitan .
4 In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent .
5 Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] .
6 The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt .
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