Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 . |
| 2 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 3 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 4 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 5 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |