Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | So-called food gifts arriving in Saratov were forced out of Ukrainian peasants by the food-collecting army ( Prodovol'stvennaia armiia ) , although they were still paying agricultural taxes which had been waived in the Volga provinces . |
| 2 | It 's claimed the pair then escaped to Streetshome at Lexton House in Middleton Cheney , but both were found out two days later when they attempted to buy antiques and jewellery with used notes which had been marked . |
| 3 | The Forest law still applied in some measure , however , to the purlieus , the outlying districts which had been put out of the forest during the fourteenth century — although in some parts of the country the authority of the Forest officers was disputed there . |
| 4 | A generation later the political opportunities which had been available in the middle of the fifth century were closed , but equally the restrictions of the 470s had lifted . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of the recent English titles issued , most ( 94% ) had been acquired by copyright deposit , but although the proportion of English titles which had been purchased was small ( 4% ) , in numerical terms they were three times as numerous as non-English purchases . |
| 8 | Another consumer industry of prime importance to this area , paper , recovered very rapidly during 1922 , in the effort to supply the hungry central bureaucracies and cultural institutions which had been sorely deprived . |
| 9 | In a negative sense , they argued that active citizenship was a healthy return to old values which had been submerged by passive reliance on the ‘ nanny state ’ . |
| 10 | They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock . |
| 11 | Some saw fascism as a means to restore an alleged utopian past of harmonious political , economic and social relationships which had been swept away by the war and replaced by the degenerative effects of the extension of the franchise in 1918 and the emergence of political democracy . |
| 12 | Once finalized , the new accord was expected to open the way to resumption of debt reduction talks with Western commercial banks which had been suspended since June 1991 . |
| 13 | In fact , it barely sufficed to keep out reconnaissance sorties by the handful of French planes which had been in Verdun at the outset . |
| 14 | The sun was casting a pleasant subdued clear radiance through the brown blinds which had been drawn over the south-facing skylight . |
| 15 | The value of the book was further enhanced by a bibliography which showed the breadth of the author 's research and brought to light many historical sources which had been ignored , forgotten or underestimated by previous writers . |
| 16 | The emergence of fascism symbolized a reaction to the continuing decline of Britain and the developing economic and social problems which had been accelerated by the war . |
| 17 | Angles , Saxons and Jutes gradually colonised parts of Britain and it seems that the Saxons , at least in East Anglia , Kent and Hampshire , helped to maintain the general improvement of British cattle which had been initiated by the Romans . |
| 18 | The plan was designed to give France the initiative in German affairs which had been slipping away from her . |
| 19 | As we walked along the sand in the quietness , stopping to look at all the interesting things which had been washed up , the beach gradually disappeared . |
| 20 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
| 21 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 22 | Also on Oct. 25 the European Commission of Human Rights issued a preliminary opinion in favour of three British newspapers which had been prevented from publishing excerpts from Spycatcher , a controversial book about the UK counterintelligence service written by former agent Peter Wright . |
| 23 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |
| 24 | Some pit villages were old agricultural communities which had been transformed by an influx of miners ; others , such as Denaby Main and Fitzwilliam , were new creations founded at the edge of parishes and away from the older settlements . |
| 25 | Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek . |
| 26 | A system with historic origins which had been made democratic in the nineteenth century was reorganized on a two-tier basis after a series of reports . |
| 27 | Thus , from 1930–31 , the District 's providing powers in Bedfordshire were limited to urban areas and the Cambridge Board assumed Chapter III powers in those rural areas which had been included in Shearman 's territory between 1927–30 . |
| 28 | There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions . |
| 29 | The earthen ramparts which had been hastily thrown up to give substance to the Collector 's revised plan of fortification were steadily melting away beneath the drumming rain . |
| 30 | Seventeen of those arrested , including the soldiers , were detained on Aug. 21 , whilst the others were arrested in separate operations which had been under way since March . |