Example sentences of "which had [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension .
2 They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them .
3 The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected .
4 These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story .
5 And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening .
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