Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt . |
| 2 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bombings appeared to be an attempt to force the government to negotiate over the hunger strike by some 40 GRAPO prisoners which had been in progress since Nov. 30 , 1989 [ see p. 37588 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 9 | The major left-wing party , the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement ( Panellinion Sotsialistikou Kinema — Pasok ) , which had been in government from 1981 until June 1989 , lost 2.1 per cent and four seats . |
| 10 | The weapons were FA-MAS 5.56mm assault rifles , recently issued to the French Armed Forces to replace the old FSA ( Fusil Semi-Automatique ) which had been in service since Algeria . |
| 11 | The Liebherr LTM 1090 crane replaces a similar capacity vehicle which had been in service at the terminal since May 1982 . |
| 12 | On March 27 , 1990 , Paul Bouchet , president of the national consultative commission on human rights , published a report on racism in France , which had been in preparation since October 1989 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The two also agreed to extend a ceasefire which had been in place since early May [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |
| 15 | King Hussein had approved a national charter on June 9 lifting the ban on political parties [ see p. 38311 ] , which had been in place since 1957 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In their efforts to reduce surplus food production in the EC , the ministers agreed to maintain for another year the virtual freeze on farm prices ( when expressed in European currency units — ECU ) which had been in effect since 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 35915 ; 36493 ; 36599 ; 37209 ] . |
| 18 | The firms were also accused of subsequently attempting to conceal the payments which , although not illegal , violated the non-binding guidelines of the Ministry of Finance which had been in effect since December 1989 . |
| 19 | The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | At the last general election in January 1987 the coalition comprising the Christian Democratic Union ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) , the Christian Social Union ( Christlich-Soziale Union — CSU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which had been in power since October 1982 , was returned to power with a reduced majority [ see pp. 35014-15 ] . |
| 22 | In the September 1989 general election the People 's United Party ( PUP ) which had been in power from the granting of internal self-government in 1964 until the 1984 general election , narrowly defeated the incumbent United Democratic Party ( UDP ) [ see pp. 36890-91 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The minority PCP government of Premier Gary Filmon , which had been in office since the April 1988 elections [ see pp. 35958-59 ] , was returned to power with 42 per cent of the vote and 30 of the 57 provincial seats . |
| 25 | The PDCS had withdrawn from their alliance with the Progressive Democratic Party ( PDP — until March 1990 the Communist Party — PCS ) on Feb. 24 , declaring that it regarded the coalition , which had been in office since 1986 , as outmoded . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | The church , which had been in communion with Rome since 1596 , was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox church by Stalin in 1948 . |
| 29 | In fact , it barely sufficed to keep out reconnaissance sorties by the handful of French planes which had been in Verdun at the outset . |
| 30 | 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 . |