Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an obvious need to bring operations together to maintain high levels of customer service and cut the proliferation of unnecessary costs which arose from being in five separate sites . |
| 2 | The European Economic Community , which came into being on 1 January 1958 , was much less supranational in form than the ECSC . |
| 3 | The new agreement , which came into being after a year of negotiations between the Association 's solicitors and those at the EC Commission , has been drastically amended to meet the requirements of the Treaty . |
| 4 | The kind of society which came into being in Europe was a more homogeneous Christian society , less differentiated than Augustine 's . |
| 5 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 6 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 7 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
| 8 | and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying . |
| 9 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 10 | The air was sweet with the smell of bread from the bakeries which seemed to be on every other street corner . |
| 11 | Over one last rise , and they were driving across a grassy boulder-strewn plateau which seemed to be on the top of the world . |
| 12 | During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better . |
| 13 | Before Morrissette , Robbe-Grillet had appeared to accept the chosiste label attached to him by Barthes on account of the supposedly flat and neutral representation of external reality and the minute descriptions of objects in his early novels , which seemed to be in accordance with the phenomenological position outlined in Pour un nouveau roman . |
| 14 | He pushed impatiently with his feet at some obstacle which seemed to be in his way . |
| 15 | There was an especially rapid growth of the textile industry in these towns which happened to be on the coalfield where the cost of transporting fuel was small . |
| 16 | He was largely responsible for organising the supply of machinery and equipment to be fitted in the bare hulls to be built in the yards of British Columbia — an industry which proved to be of vital importance during the Second World War . |
| 17 | Whether this provided any dating evidence I can not remember , but at the bottom of this deposit was an earlier pavement which proved to be of much greater interest , as it was a most unusual pattern of a scroll of trumpet-shaped leaves . |
| 18 | As old age creeps on I occasionally reflect , in that pious way that is one of the perks of advancing years , about those things in my education which proved to be of most use in later life . |
| 19 | Nevertheless Dobry started a debate which proved to be of wider and of greater long term significance than was envisaged when he was commissioned to assist in ‘ streamlining the planning machine ’ . |
| 20 | The high frequencies were tamed and a spectrum calculated which proved to be in perfect agreement with experiment . |
| 21 | The cover photograph was of three guys in full army kit — camouflage dress , boots , black berets , black make-up and all waving rifles — jumping off a wooden bridge which appeared to be under shellfire . |
| 22 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 23 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 24 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 25 | The genealogical framework was the narrative , and it was essentially unconnected with any particular time : it was a sequence which had to be in the right order , and it explained how living people and the loyalties which linked them , came to be . |
| 26 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |