Example sentences of "[noun] which had [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 2 | Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use . |
| 3 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |
| 4 | Wickham turned his attention to the typewriter which had been used for the death threat . |
| 5 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 6 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 7 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 8 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 10 | There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions . |
| 11 | Since the Second World War the family has entered the international arena by its contributions to multi-racial education in Africa , by establishing the International Students ' House in London for students from overseas , and by founding the Michael Wills Scholarships at Oxford University to replace the Rhodes Scholarships which had been discontinued for Germans in 1939 . |
| 12 | One thing about having a job , she thought , sitting down at her desk and leafing through the messages which had been left for her , it certainly takes your mind off your worries . |
| 13 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 14 | I took the ferry back to Picton , drove to Christchurch , and moved in to the flat in the university Hall of Residence which had been reserved for me . |
| 15 | Behind such analyses lay Richard Hoggart 's extensive and sensitive work in The Uses of Literacy , published in 1957 and documenting the assumptions , attitudes , and morals of working-class people in Northern England , together with the influence upon them of the magazines , books , and films which had been produced for a mass market . |
| 16 | Blundell has filled the vacancy which had been earmarked for first-choice newcomer Damon Hill . |
| 17 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 18 | The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 . |
| 19 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 20 | What else could she do , Merrill asked herself , but stand up , pleasantly acquiescent because of Richard 's presence , and let Luke take her arm and lead her into a room which had been cleared for dancing ? |
| 21 | More than £4 which had been left for the milkman was stolen from the house in Marwood Drive . |
| 22 | A Convention on Insider Trading which had been opened for signature in April 1989 entered into force on Oct. 1 , 1991 , with its ratification by Norway , Sweden and the UK . |
| 23 | Another batch of goods which had been bought for £400 and sold for £600 were subsequently found to be faulty . |
| 24 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 25 | He painfully scrawled on the piece of paper which had been left for him : HOW IS YOUR MOTHER ? |
| 26 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
| 27 | Being based on characters which had been designed for incising in stone they were difficult and slow to write . |
| 28 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 29 | Historically this was created shortly after nineteen sixty one as a rough way of judging the submissions which had been made for sketch plan purposes on the basis of the nineteen fifty five circular . |
| 30 | Survival , l(x) , and fertility , m(x) , in the two sexes , as a function of time since eclosion , for lines of Drosophila melanogaster which had been selected for early or late reproduction . |