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

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1 Initially , SEATS will replace the Company Bulletin Board service introduced in April 1992 to permit investors to display their buying and selling orders in securities which ceased to be traded on SEAQ because they did not have two marketmakers ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June , p 44 ) .
2 During the late spring and summer of 1937 the revolution was well and truly rolled back in two of its former strongholds : Catalonia , which ceased to be autonomous within Republican Spain , and Aragon , where the CNT-dominated Council of Aragon was physically destroyed by Communist forces .
3 Details of the military arrangements , which ceased to be operational in February 1991 [ see pp. 38026-27 ] , were not released .
4 Among the structures which received attention at that meeting but which failed to be included in the final Charter was the creation of a pan-European Assembly .
5 She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village .
6 More positively , I was being given what I did not want ( which amounted to being given nothing ) and being classified as what I was not ( which amounted to being classified as nothing ) .
7 More positively , I was being given what I did not want ( which amounted to being given nothing ) and being classified as what I was not ( which amounted to being classified as nothing ) .
8 There was an obvious need to bring operations together to maintain high levels of customer service and cut the proliferation of unnecessary costs which arose from being in five separate sites .
9 The salon was continued during daylight hours at the ICM building in an atmosphere which succeeded in being simultaneously both frenetic and relaxed and in which a mood of party time was seldom absent .
10 ‘ Simon de Montfort ’ could be the first lecture on the Friday morning , to be followed by ‘ The Battle of Evesham ’ , which promised to be quite enlightening .
11 Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career .
12 Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want .
13 She learned to love the school which tried to be a home away from home to the 120 girls .
14 Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was .
15 Passing sentence Lord Justice MacDermott accepted Hall was remorseful , but throwing the stone at an area were there were people was a ‘ reckless act ’ which deserved to be punished .
16 The kind of society which came into being in Europe was a more homogeneous Christian society , less differentiated than Augustine 's .
17 With that speech , he laid the foundation for the Legion of Decency which came into being a year later with the main function of rating films according to moral classifications .
18 In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain .
19 The new agreement , which came into being after a year of negotiations between the Association 's solicitors and those at the EC Commission , has been drastically amended to meet the requirements of the Treaty .
20 The European Economic Community , which came into being on 1 January 1958 , was much less supranational in form than the ECSC .
21 So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " .
22 The grain was ground between the faces of the stones which came to be grooved to give a better cutting action , and the ground meal was distributed to the outside edge of the stones for collection .
23 One skipper who sought to reduce the carnage discovered that trapped dolphins could be released from nets by the use of a manoeuvre which came to be known as ‘ backdown . ’
24 This was the movement , initiated by the Wesley brothers and White field , which came to be called Methodism among those leaving the established church , and Evangelicalism among those remaining within the Anglican fold .
25 It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types .
26 I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years .
27 The most striking thing about these changes , however , is that although the problems which confronted the inquiries were broadly similar , the solutions which came to be offered differed in marked respects .
28 A very different response to the critical approach to the Bible was worked out on the other side of the Atlantic by Charles Hodge ( 1797 — 1878 ) of Princeton , the Presbyterian seminary which came to be a veritable bastion of Calvinist orthodoxy .
29 The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten .
30 Second , it tended to downgrade the Council of Europe , which came to be regarded by ardent Europeanists only as a symbol of unity and of better things to come .
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