Example sentences of "which had [be] [verb] [prep] [num] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her visit , which had been repeated since 1935 , was , I learnt later , not an unmixed pleasure for him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921 . |
| 18 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The only exception was the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes which had been formed in 1948 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 29 | On Sept. 13 , 1991 , the Bank of France announced that it was returning to the Baltic states between two and three tonnes of gold which had been deposited in 1932-36 . |
| 30 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |