Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite — some would say because of — the cosy consensus which had been created by a powerful nuclear lobby with tacit political support , the development of nuclear power in Britain has not followed a smooth path . |
| 2 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 3 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 4 | Waksman is said to have been shown a culture of tubercle bacilli which had been killed by a fungus in 1932 , but he was not tempted to pursue the implications of this observation . |
| 5 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 6 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 7 | The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders . |
| 8 | This historic search of 1959 was an assignment to find a Chief Executive for ITT , the powerful but then rather dormant telephone equipment corporation , which had been run by a dynasty of ex-service leaders . |
| 9 | The alleged swindle took the form of charging Wessex for computer services which had not been rendered and double charging for services which had been rendered by a multiplication of invoices and false entries . |
| 10 | 32 people were arrested at the party site , which had been occupied by a group of travellers . |
| 11 | Opening the session , which had been preceded by a standing committee meeting , the Prime Minister of Pakistan and current chair of the organization , Benazir Bhutto , called on the seven member countries to work out a partnership to meet their security concerns , as well as the social and economic means to realize the potential of the region as an economic power . |
| 12 | Along the corridor , the so-called ‘ central belt activists ’ and loyal guards of the legacy of the former Govan MP , Jim Sillars , were angrily reviewing the outcome of the 3-hour meeting , which had been prompted by a motion expressing full confidence in the SNP MPs being passed by 13 to 11 votes with two abstentions . |
| 13 | They were : broadcasting policy ; safety at sports grounds ; the issues of press freedom and privacy which had been considered by a committee under the chairmanship of ( Sir ) David Calcutt QC in 1989–90 , leading to a further review of the effectiveness of newspaper self-regulation ; and the proposed National Lottery . |
| 14 | Having finished loading , Ram stopped to scratch the back of his head , which was rather itchy , and then his elbow , which had been bitten by a mosquito some days earlier but which still itched occasionally . |
| 15 | Alan Hobart of Pyms Gallery purchased a fine historical composition by John Hamilton Mortimer ( lot 36 , est. £8,000–12,000 ) for £40,000 , but there were no bids for Constable 's unconvincing portrait group of the three Lambert Children ( lot 34 , est. £150,000–200,000 ) which had been purchased by a private collector at Sotheby 's in 1985 for the excessive price of £220,000 . |
| 16 | An application by the Uttar Pradesh government in October 1991 to acquire 2.77 acres of land adjoining the mosque , which had been allowed by a court in Lucknow [ see p. 38532 ] was rejected by the Supreme Court on Dec. 11 . |
| 17 | Waiting in the wings , as he knew , was just such a scheme , which had been produced by a young architect called John Simpson . |
| 18 | In 1987 there was a complete breakdown of a computerised distribution system in Mothercare , which had been installed by a leading group of experts . |
| 19 | Failures included two sculptures by Richard Artschwager from Saatchi 's collection ( lots 21 and 66 ) , Anselm Kiefer 's ‘ Des Malers Atelier ’ ( lot 51 ) , and Richard Long 's beautiful and important ‘ Whitechapel Slate Circle ’ ( lot 60 ) , which had been bought by a British collector for his New Jersey estate at Sotheby 's in May 1989 for $190,000 ( £126,667 ) . |
| 20 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |