Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 2 | Information about the processing applied to the cross-references and the exceptions which arose is stored in the table . |
| 3 | Turning to the stay of proceedings , the principles which applied were enshrined in The Abidin Daver ( 1984 ) AC 398 and The Spiliada ( 1987 ) AC 460 . |
| 4 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |
| 5 | ‘ A driving offence which included being drunk in charge of a vehicle , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 6 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 7 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 8 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 9 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 10 | The bands which appeared were selected by the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) on behalf of the MU and the ICA . |
| 11 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 12 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 13 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 14 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 15 | Zoser , as rigid as Andrus and far less intelligent , had taken it upon himself to put right the wrong which had been done to his friend and his church . |
| 16 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 17 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 18 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 19 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 20 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 21 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 22 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
| 23 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 24 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 25 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 26 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
| 27 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 28 | Adenauer also succeeded , within the CDU , in rejecting socialist-style ideas for reform , such as nationalisation , which had been seen in the party 's 1947 ‘ Ahlen Programme ’ . |
| 29 | The ‘ strong technical control ’ which had been seen by the CEB men at the centre as essential for efficiency was seen by many in the divisions as an unnecessary drag on initiative and responsibility . |
| 30 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |