Example sentences of "which [vb past] to 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Yet it was still a tour which promised to be the peak of Gooch 's great 18-year international career . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She learned to love the school which tried to be a home away from home to the 120 girls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Journalists christened his daily briefings ‘ the Falt follies ’ , a self-conscious reference to the American briefings in Vietnam which came to be known as ‘ the five o'clock follies ’ . |
| 21 | Consequently the policy of expanding and then contracting demand , which came to be known as ‘ stop — go ’ , was a result of the direct conflict between the employment and balance of payments objectives since control over the level of aggregate demand was relied upon in order to achieve both goals . |
| 22 | During the same period it was also alleged that there was a trade-off between unemployment and inflation , which came to be known as the Phillips curve . |
| 23 | The French , therefore , set about building galleys , their principal repair yard being the Clos des Galées at Rouen , which came to be developed in the course of the fourteenth century , and which saw its heyday during the successful wars waged by Charles V in the 1370s . |
| 24 | While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West . |
| 25 | From the creative interaction , came the new concept , which came to be called Educational Technology . |
| 26 | Many Serbs fled from the advancing Turks and settled north of the Sava in the Hungarian-held lands which came to be known as Vojvodina . |
| 27 | On 16 August 1819 there occurred in Manchester the event which came to be known as the Peterloo massacre . |
| 28 | The numerous fissures there , which came to be known as the Back Strings , represent these early excavations upon the vein outcrops , though they have been modified and deepened over the years . |
| 29 | It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team . |
| 30 | The dissidents , claiming the support of 68 members , effectively established a new party which came to be known as Janata Dal ( Socialist ) Party or Janata Dal ( S ) . |