Example sentences of "[Wh det] had been [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 3 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 4 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 5 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 6 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 7 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 8 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 9 | Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 . |
| 10 | On Aug. 19 Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) observers reported that the situation remained tense , and expressed dismay that recommendations to end the violence , which had been made some days earlier , had yet to be implemented . |
| 11 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 12 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |
| 13 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 14 | Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through . |
| 15 | The meal was organised around the char which had been caught that afternoon , and Hope was touched at the extravagant praise lobbed his way for the provision of the excellent fish . |
| 16 | He emerged from a cage which had been suspended 25 feet down a shaft at Markham Main colliery , near Doncaster , after handing police a shotgun . |
| 17 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 18 | This consisted of a milk bottle filled with water to which had been added some lemon juice , and four rounds of Vienna bread , which should have contained beef , but it had run out . |
| 19 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |