Example sentences of "which they [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland .
2 These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book .
3 Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God .
4 They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit .
5 Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered .
6 The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems .
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