Example sentences of "which had been closed " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 2 | The railway line between the Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) and Beckenham , which had been closed during the 1914–18 war , was electrified and reopened in 1929 . |
| 3 | One day I went to the swimming pool which had been closed earlier in the year after a near miss by a Tomahawk missile . |
| 4 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 5 | Prisons , such as Preston and Portsmouth , which had been closed as civil prisons since the 1930s , had to be re-opened to contain the larger numbers . |
| 6 | The newspaper La Prensa , which had been closed down in February 1988 [ see p. 35818 ] , reopened on Jan. 7 , 1990 , its editor , Roberto Eisenmann , having returned from exile on Jan. 5 . |
| 7 | Panamá América , a newspaper which had been closed by the military authorities 21 years earlier , also resumed publication on Jan. 5 . |
| 8 | Also in January President Endara reopened the Chamber of Commerce which had been closed in February 1988 for opposing Noriega . |
| 9 | Iraq accused Iran on Oct. 9 , 1989 , of " violating the diplomatic sanctity " of the Iraqi embassy residence in Tehran ( which had been closed since December 1987 , diplomatic relations having formally been severed in October — see p. 35601 ) . |
| 10 | The dispute also coincided with demands by ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania for the immediate reopening of their own schools and the re-establishment of the Hungarian-teaching Babes-Bolyai University , which had been closed by Ceausescu in his campaign to assimilate the Hungarian community . |
| 11 | The former Hungarian consul in Cluj , Domokos Vekas , was continuing negotiations for the re-opening of the consulate , which had been closed in 1989 . |
| 12 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 13 | Clodumar said that the government planned to invest further in Air Nauru , but that it would not re-open diplomatic missions in Hong Kong , American Samoa , Japan , Hawaii and the Cook Islands , which had been closed under the Aroi administration for reasons of economy . |
| 14 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 15 | Slovenia 's airports , which had been closed by the federal authorities on June 27 , were reopened on July 26 . |
| 16 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 17 | During January courts set in motion the process of liquidating the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed in July 1991 after evidence of massive fraud was revealed [ see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ] . |
| 18 | Vietnam and China officially re-opened on April 1 the Friendship Pass border crossing between China 's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lang Son provinces , which had been closed since the border war in 1979 . |
| 19 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 20 | Chief Superintendent Wycliffe 's driver pulled into the car park , which had been closed to the public , and joined a line of police vehicles . |
| 21 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |