Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 3 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 4 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 5 | My main concern , however , on this throbbing morn , is to reassure any of my admirers whose opinion of me may have been diminished by David and Ted 's startling revelations concerning the use to which I have been known to put my sinuses . |
| 6 | Andrew , how far exactly has the scheme which you 've been running gone ? |
| 7 | Hilary gave a brief report of the VIIth International and Commonwealth Conference on Sport , Physical Education , Recreation and Dance which she had been invited to attend on behalf of the M&D Division of the C.C.P.R. It was held at the University of Queensland , in Brisbane , Australia from 23–28th September , immediately preceding the Commonwealth Games . |
| 8 | Similarly , Vera Brittain was finally converted to absolute pacifism — and rendered temporarily speechless — while listening to Christian pacifist speeches at a rally to which she had been invited to put the case for collective security . |
| 9 | It turned out , after cross examination , that the bottle in question was in fact a bottle of Algizin-P , which she had been told to use to keep her fish healthy . |
| 10 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 11 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 12 | In the BIP competition , she also achieved one of only two merits awarded in the architectural section with her photograph of the interior of the Darlington Cornmill , which she had been commissioned to take on behalf of the architects . |
| 13 | Although the current climate of education cut-backs and competition from a large variety of exercise classes presents a considerable challenge to the development of Medau , Pat is sure that the Grant Aid Programme , which she has been appointed to implement , has strengthened the foundations on which the Medau family can build . |
| 14 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 15 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 16 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 17 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 18 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 19 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 20 | committing ourselves ever more deeply to the ministry of communication which we have been called to share . |
| 21 | Consequently , from the authorities to which I have referred above and a number of decisions in other common law jurisdictions which we have been invited to consider , I have come to the conclusion that there is no difference in principle between a trading company and a non-trading corporation for the purposes of suing in tort , including the tort of defamation . |
| 22 | Past history is thus significant as the occasion by which we have been enabled to see what otherwise we might have failed to grasp ; but the real content of the revelation is in principle detachable from the particular history through which it has been manifested . |
| 23 | Oldbuy records which are no longer current and which we have been requested to delete from Buyers . |
| 24 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 25 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 26 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 27 | Readers had responded to a Desert Island Discs competition , in which they had been asked to indicate their eight favourite works , the winner being the reader whose choice was nearest to consensus opinion . |
| 28 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 29 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 30 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |