Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 2 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 3 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 4 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 5 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 6 | Ancient customs such as ‘ bundling ’ , intimate but fully clothed and ritualistic forms of petting , cuddling and courtship in bed , which had been policed by local traditions in rural society , continued into industrial society . |
| 7 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 8 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 9 | The Ferry loop line brought the trams to the waterfront , passing on their return the Pharos Lighthouse , which had been built in 1840 . |
| 10 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 11 | One of his earliest discoveries in this field was how to make Tyrian purple — an indigo derivative — from certain shellfish , a secret which had been lost since Roman times . |
| 12 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 13 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 14 | Patients were immersed in water from the Nile which had been poured over divine statues inscribed with magical spells . |
| 15 | In 1955 , car 144 was exported to the U.S.A. for preservation , and numbers of Standards gradually declined until , by 1966 , only three were left in service : 147 , and 158–9 which had been illuminated in 1959 . |
| 16 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 17 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 18 | It was suggested that the League should concentrate on recreational and educational activities and that the age limit , which had been raised to 25 in 1926 , should be progressively reduced to 11 by 1939 . |
| 19 | The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again . |
| 20 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 21 | The reshuffle was therefore interpreted as a signal from King Hassan that the parties traditionally loyal to the palace ( which had been represented by four members in the outgoing Cabinet ) would receive favourable treatment compared with the opposition parties of the Democratic Bloc [ for whose formation in May see p. 38982 ] . |
| 22 | Mengistu announced on March 5 , 1990 , that the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia , which had been created in 1984 as the sole legal party [ see p. 33384 ] , was to be transformed into a new Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party , in what was portrayed as a move towards wider political participation intended to embrace opposition groups . |
| 23 | Mengistu announced on March 5 , 1990 , that the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia , which had been created in 1984 as the sole legal party [ see p. 33384 ] , was to be transformed into a new Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party [ see p. 37310 ] , in what was portrayed as a move towards wider political participation intended to embrace opposition groups . |
| 24 | During the late 1580s , Hooker became involved in a bitter theological dispute with the Presbyterian , Walter Travers , and as a result in the early 1590s he retired to a country living in Wiltshire to compose a literary apologia for the church which had been created in 1559 . |
| 25 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 26 | Inside were three fat volumes of Mark Twain tied together with gold tape and a card with Complemento de Librerío Universal on which had been written in green ink primera edición . |
| 27 | Implied in this idea was the notion that war was not , as some would have argued , the main cause of social disharmony , but rather the chief means of attaining the restoration of an order which had been broken by other causes . |
| 28 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 29 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 30 | There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions . |