Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official messages and the students ' despair which resulted were familiar to those of previous periods of liberalisation and backlash . |
| 2 | The emission standards set for new vehicles gave due consideration to the technological feasibility and economic cost of compliance by the vehicle manufacturers and the standards which emerged were similar to those already adopted by California . |
| 3 | He had no wish to confess that he had visited Madame Mantela , a lady palmist in Margate , in order to discover what his future might hold , the results of which had been far from reassuring . |
| 4 | He refused to continue the legacy of executions which had been symptomatic of his father 's regime . |
| 5 | From every standpoint , the initiatives taken by the Cambridge Board had been entirely beneficial : to students , LEAs and , not least , to the District which had been relieved of significant administrative and financial burdens . |
| 6 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 7 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 8 | A generation later the political opportunities which had been available in the middle of the fifth century were closed , but equally the restrictions of the 470s had lifted . |
| 9 | In it , Younger stressed the need for additional alternatives to custodial sentences , which had been implicit in the decision to ask the Council to undertake the enquiry . |
| 10 | FIG. 2 Translocation of 11 C-labelled photosynthate out of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling which had been pulse-labelled with 11 CO 2 at time zero . |
| 11 | Meanwhile member countries sought to agree on measures to introduce a single internal market within the EC by Jan. 1 , 1993 , as agreed under the Single European Act which had been effective since July 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 34107-08 for terms ] . |
| 12 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 13 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 14 | He replaced Mikhail Nenashev , who returned to the post of Chair of the USSR State Committee for the Press , which he had held in 1986-89 , and which had been vacant since the removal of Nikolai Yefimov at the end of July . |
| 15 | On Jan. 25 Havel appointed Jozef Baksay from Public Against Violence ( PAV ) as Minister of Foreign Trade , a post which had been vacant since the death of Slavomir Stracar in August 1990 [ see p. 37737 ] . |
| 16 | Khamphoui Keoboualapha was appointed as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Planning and Finance , a post which had been vacant since the death of Sali Vongkhamsao in January 1991 [ see p. 37963 ] . |
| 17 | Thrush Green stood on high ground at the northerly end of Lulling , a small sleepy prosperous town , which had been famous in the days of the wool trade . |
| 18 | This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations . |
| 19 | The immediate cause of his first campaign was to support the town of Lodi , which had been subject to control by Milan . |
| 20 | Tensions in the Gaza Strip , which had been subject to a clampdown by the Israeli authorities since the fatal stabbing on May 25 of a 15-year-old Jewish schoolgirl by a Palestinian youth in the Bat Yam suburb of Tel Aviv , rose on June 25 when two Jewish vegetable merchants were stabbed to death . |
| 21 | When this truth , which had been apparent from early morning , was finally recognized by Jean-Luc Roussel and Charles was released , it was about five o'clock . |
| 22 | On Oct. 3 , the second anniversary of German unification , several thousand people took part in a protest against xenophobia at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp , which had been fire-bombed in September [ see pp. 39111-12 ] . |
| 23 | Many other surveys were conducted at this time , employing the newly re-established social science departments , which had been inactive for over two decades . |
| 24 | The Edinburgh Conference was the last to be held under the complete trade-union domination which had been noticeable since 1932 . |
| 25 | The new lines , with more than six times the transmission capacity of the old 132kV Grid lines , would greatly strengthen the north — south interconnections which had been weak in the original Grid design ( see Figure 8. 1 ) . |
| 26 | British academic institutions which had been involved in satisfying Elena Ceauşescu 's desire for recognition by her colleagues handled their embarrassment with little aplomb after Christmas 1989 . |
| 27 | The Spanish-owned companies which had been involved in ‘ quota-hopping ’ challenged the 1988 Act on the grounds that it contradicted Community law . |
| 28 | Archie Turnbull took early retirement in 1987 , suggesting as his successor Martin Spencer , then running Manchester University Press , which had been involved in several successful collaborative ventures with EUP . |
| 29 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 30 | Two of these — Yoh Kurosawa , president of the IBJ , the country 's most prestigious bank , and Toru Hashimoto , of the Fuji Bank — represented institutions which had been involved in the Tokyo Shinkin scandal [ see above ] . |