Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [verb] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 2 | Almost 69 per cent of the electorate of the Republic of Belau ( formerly Palau — see p. 30756 ) took part on Feb. 6 in a seventh referendum on the issue of the country 's compact of free association with the United States which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 3 | I have a bogus copy of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States which has been turned into a fireproof combination lock safe , but that was a professional job done by my mate Lenny the Lathe in return for a favour . |
| 4 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 5 | The plan is in the form of a Greek cross with arms of equal length and it is based upon the design of the famous Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople which had been begun by Constantine and rebuilt by Justinian but which was destroyed in 1463 . |
| 6 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 7 | The Swiss Federal Tribunal ( supreme court ) issued a ruling on Dec. 27 , 1990 , which opened the way for the Philippines government to recover assets embezzled by ex-President Ferdinand Marcos which had been secreted in Swiss bank accounts . |
| 8 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 9 | The new government has also moved to scrap school textbooks developed under the Sandinistas and has imported textbooks from Costa Rica which had been produced with USAID assistance . |
| 10 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 11 | Thank you for your letter inviting comment from the Parish Council on the management of the Forest of Bowland AONB which has been passed round the members of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 12 | The catalyst was the Crichel Down Enquiry in 1954 by the Minister of Agriculture into the sale and subsequent choosing of a tenant for Crichel Down in Dorset which had been purchased during the war as a bombing range ( Griffith , 1955 ) . |
| 13 | Welcome to this 5th edition of the British Coal Guide to Steam Trains in Great Britain and Ireland which has been compiled by John Jeffery for the Association of Railway Preservation Societies with the generous sponsorship of British Coal . |
| 14 | The regulations were intended to prevent the sort of scenes witnessed in Shanghai which had been broadcast across the world . |
| 15 | For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years . |
| 16 | On Aug. 30 Canada resumed shipments of wheat to Russia which had been interrupted from Aug. 18 because of payment arrears . |
| 17 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 18 | The apparent management of woodland to produce trees and wood of specific sizes and to meet demand is demonstrated in the structures dating from around 3500 BC which have been excavated in the Levels . |
| 19 | Three are preserved , including 660 in Blackpool which has been restored for the Centenary . |
| 20 | The libretto for the opera , Idomeneo , was based on a French text by Antoine Danchet which had been performed in Paris in 1712 with music by Andre Campra . |
| 21 | The open conflict of early 1988 was precipitated , it appears , by the rejection by the central party authorities of an appeal for Nagorno-Karabakh to be returned to Armenia which had been signed by 75,000 Karabakh Armenians . |
| 22 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 23 | ( The Japanese government nevertheless announced that it would resume a major aid programme to China which had been frozen in 1989 , arguing that it was not in the interest of the world to try to isolate China . ) |
| 24 | Japan announced on Nov. 2 that it would reactivate a development loan programme for China which had been frozen after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 25 | In November 1990 Japan had reactivated a development loan programme to China which had been frozen after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 26 | This issue ( together with the long-running territorial dispute over the disputed Senkaku islands ) soured relations somewhat with China towards the end of 1990 , even though earlier in the year Japan had been in the forefront of those countries arguing for a resumption of the aid to China which had been suspended after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | During the lay up of Venturous I spent a brief interlude in the Solent area evaluating the performance and suitability of a thirty two foot fast motor cruiser Gazelle which had been purchased by the Department as an experiment . |
| 30 | Patients were immersed in water from the Nile which had been poured over divine statues inscribed with magical spells . |