Example sentences of "which [vb past] be [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ferry loop line brought the trams to the waterfront , passing on their return the Pharos Lighthouse , which had been built in 1840 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The issue of the lack of variety in the Art curriculum , which had been raised in earlier meetings was raised again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 15 | The British Journal of Photography were lavish in their praise for the quality of his work , which had been undertaken in difficult circumstances . |
| 16 | It was a familiar scene , which had been repeated in dozens of rooms and halls throughout the police area ; the same old battered filing cabinets and rickety tables ; chipped metal trays and typewriters which had withstood the assaults of a generation of heavy handed coppers . |
| 17 | They comprised the Bullhouse corn mill , a fulling mill ( later a wire mill ) which had given its name to a new settlement at Millhouse Green , the Ecklands bridge paper mill ( later an umbrella works ) , the Plumpton cloth mill , the Thurlstone corn mill and another cloth mill which had been erected in 1740 as an oil mill for crushing rape and linseed . |
| 18 | Indica 's contacts with modern art had yielded , through the Robert Fraser Gallery a large American car which had been painted in fashionable stripes by New York 's Binder , Edwards and Vaughan , interior decorators . |
| 19 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 20 | The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921 . |
| 21 | The ANC held a policy conference in Johannesburg on May 28-31 aimed at developing the organization 's principal guiding document , the Freedom Charter , which had been adopted in 1955 . |
| 22 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 23 | Cyprus was de facto divided between two states , the ( Greek Cypriot ) Republic of Cyprus and the ( Turkish Cypriot ) TRNC in 1975 after the civil war which had been precipitated in 1974 by a coup by Greek Cypriot supporters of union with Greece which was followed by an invasion by Turkish troops . |
| 24 | The only exception was the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes which had been formed in 1948 . |
| 25 | In 1949 , the Soviet Union organized the Council for Mutual Economic Aid ( Comecon ) , paralleling the Organization for European Economic Cooperation , which had been formed in 1948 as a framework within which the United States could distribute aid to rebuild the warshattered West European economies . |
| 26 | The party , which had been formed in 1981 , had won only three seats in the 1987 general election but a rump led by David Owen had refused to merge with the Liberals in January 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] , and had performed poorly in the local elections in May 1991 . |
| 27 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 28 | On Nov. 24 three-quarters of the delegates at the 18th congress of the Unified Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste unifié — PSU ) voted to disband the party which had been formed in 1960 . |
| 29 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 30 | On Aug. 26 Sampson had begun legal proceedings to secure an early release , arguing that 11 years in exile in France should count towards his sentence , which had been pronounced in 1976 [ see p. 27980 ] . |