Example sentences of "which had been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 2 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 4 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 5 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 6 | The news item was on the front page : the British Government , which had been sending aid and supplies to Poland to assist her fight against the Russian Soviet , had changed its policy . |
| 7 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
| 8 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 9 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 10 | Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek . |
| 11 | In one case a field officer inspecting a large garage which had been causing problems with an oil discharge was given an extensive tour of the premises and an offer of ( unspecified ) help with his car ( this case , together with the lavish hospitality of the McDonald 's case described in Chapter 2 , were the only examples of an inducement , however vague , being made in my presence ) . |
| 12 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 13 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 14 | Products from these colonies , notably tobacco and sugar , had joined those from Asia to make up the re-export trade which had been balancing Britain 's payments since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 . |
| 15 | On 19 June , however , things began to warm up again , and the plume of steam and ash , which had been showing signs of flagging , rose higher and higher as more and more powerful explosions shook the air . |
| 16 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |
| 17 | Strangely , it also sliced through the air of unreality which had been preventing Vologsky from facing the real issues . |