Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished . |
| 2 | Henceforward British subjects were to be the sum total of the citizens of those territories — some independent and some not independent as yet — which had formerly been within the allegiance as dominions of the Crown . |
| 3 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |
| 4 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 5 | When he left , she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house . |
| 6 | Eagerly he bartered his estate at ‘ St. Budoch ’ in exchange for the castle , which had previously been in the possession of the Courtenay family . |
| 7 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 8 | When Piri Pasa put the idea to Selim , however , the latter refused , taking the view that it would be wrong to interfere in the affairs of the two cities , which enjoyed a special standing in the Islamic world and the governing of which had always been in the hands of descendents of the Prophet . |
| 9 | Wrathfully indignant at his mother 's lack of appreciation of his efforts as a mechanic , an idea which had long been in his mind , that of writing a novel , had crystallized . |
| 10 | As a result of these disputes , Charles gained possession of a number of Istrian coastal cities which had originally been under the rule of Constantinople . |
| 11 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 12 | This avoided the appearance of lowering rates which had often been at a " customary " level for a generation or more . |
| 13 | Her taste , which had never been for understatement , influenced his , which had always been a little austere . |