Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 2 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 3 | Parliament on June 12 , 1991 , approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne , thus overturning the male-only succession which had been in place since Belgian independence . |
| 4 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 5 | The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period . |
| 6 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 7 | The Liebherr LTM 1090 crane replaces a similar capacity vehicle which had been in service at the terminal since May 1982 . |
| 8 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 9 | President Abdou Diouf announced on April 7 that he was appointing the president ( Speaker ) of the National Assembly , Habib Thiam , as Prime Minister , a post which had been in abeyance since 1983 , shortly after Thiam 's removal from it [ see p. 32180 ] . |
| 10 | UPH 's shareholders may wonder why Desmond spent £4.4m of their money on a site which had been on offer for £2.7m . |
| 11 | Anyway , ’ his gaze shifted slightly and his tone grew harder , as if he regretted the revelation , ‘ he was forced out of business and lost the boatyard which had been in his family for four generations . ’ |
| 12 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 13 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 14 | Once the agreement had been reached the National Front-Left Front grouping withdrew its nomination which had been in support of the outgoing Speaker , Rabi Ray . |
| 15 | The party conflict which had been in the process of emerging in England since 1660 , and which had led to the clash between Whigs and Tories during the Exclusion Crisis , continued to develop after the Glorious Revolution , and reached a new height of intensity in the reign of Queen Anne . |
| 16 | A major EC loan which had been under negotiation for some months [ see p. 37968 ] was approved on Feb. 25 , 1991 , but was conditional on the implementation of economic measures corresponding to those outlined in the adjustment programme . |
| 17 | The week which followed was amongst the most lonely of Ruth 's life . |
| 18 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 19 | The news broadcast had moved on to other matters now ; the loss of contact between Earth Central and a Space Fleet flotilla which had been on its way to intercept a supposed alien fleet near Epsilon Eridani . |
| 20 | On April 23 the Bulgarian National Assembly adopted the privatization bill which had been under discussion since February [ see p. 38776 ] . |
| 21 | Commending the Criminal Justice Bill to Parliament in 1947 the Home Secretary , Chuter Ede , said that it followed closely on the lines of a Bill which had been before the House of Commons in the session 1938/9 . |
| 22 | Instead , the presidential insignia and other symbols of government were handed over by the president of the anti-communist Polish government which had been in exile in London since 1939 , Ryszard Kaczorowski . |
| 23 | The immediately following articles give the newly independent State the right to succeed to any treaty which had been in force in its territory , regardless of the wishes of any other party to the treaty . |
| 24 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 25 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 26 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |
| 27 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 28 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 29 | The changes , to be implemented in May 1991 , involved the scrapping of the country 's mandatory system of conciliation and arbitration which had been in operation since 1984 . |
| 30 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |