Example sentences of "and which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death-bed thus prefigured the decisive struggle for possession of the soul , which would take place on Judgement Day and which had been so vividly depicted in mediaeval murals and missals . |
| 2 | The experience of the early Christians depicted in Acts was without doubt an experience of release , as they came to abandon practices which they found restrictive , and which had been encapsulated in laws which served to keep the Jews apart from the rest of the nations . |
| 3 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 4 | In Jacques 's view the indivisibility of town and country in liberal adult education might lead naturally to the formation of a county federation of WEA branches as had occurred elsewhere in the District and which had been entirely beneficial to the growth of adult education . |
| 5 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 6 | Local Education Authorities were jealous of the autonomy that they had enjoyed since 1902 , and which had been consolidated in 1944 : they would not take kindly to being told precisely what to do , and even a persuasive circular about the organization of secondary education was too much for some of them . |
| 7 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 8 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 9 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 10 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 11 | Sitting on a stone in the middle of the water was the large frog that Mildred had often seen , and which had been the inspiration for the tale which had scared Ethel 's sister . |
| 12 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |
| 13 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 14 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 15 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 16 | The rejection of Young 's theory , which poses problems from the point of view of rival methodologies and which had been explained by easily discredited theories such as an appeal to hero worship of Newton , is shown by Worrall to be in complete accord with Lakatos 's methodology . |
| 17 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 18 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 19 | Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe . |
| 20 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 21 | This replaced the original plan whose severity had sparked off street protests in February and March and which had been abandoned in mid-April . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The wing of Solidarity which had supported Tadeusz Mazowiecki , the outgoing Prime Minister , in the first round and which had been very critical of Walesa during the campaign , also urged — albeit with no great enthusiasm — that voters should support Walesa . |
| 24 | Spokesmen for the Chamorro government stressed that a small group of officers had acted on their own authority to ship the missiles , which included Sam-7s and Sam-14s and which had been used to shoot down Salvadorean army aircraft on Nov. 23 and Dec. 4 . |
| 25 | These sums were separate from the 128,300 million yen which they had already confessed to paying between 1987 and 1990 , and which had been revealed in July 1991 [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 26 | The conflict centred upon the Northern Territories , four islands ( known in the Soviet Union as the Kuriles ) which lay off the coast of Hokkaido , and which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 29 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 30 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |