Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] which had been " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The total sum was significantly higher than that which had been anticipated .
3 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 .
4 The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921 .
5 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 .
6 All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm .
7 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 .
8 In 1955 , car 144 was exported to the U.S.A. for preservation , and numbers of Standards gradually declined until , by 1966 , only three were left in service : 147 , and 158–9 which had been illuminated in 1959 .
9 In a crossover design , each class did comprehension tests on four passages — two original ones , and two which had been rewritten by the other group .
10 The market 's weakness was reinforced by continuing over-supply as crude which had been produced before the agreement reached the market place .
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