Example sentences of "which [prep] [noun pl] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 2 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 3 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 4 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 5 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |