Example sentences of "which had [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
2 | He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name . |
3 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
4 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
5 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
6 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
7 | Adenauer also succeeded , within the CDU , in rejecting socialist-style ideas for reform , such as nationalisation , which had been seen in the party 's 1947 ‘ Ahlen Programme ’ . |
8 | The ‘ strong technical control ’ which had been seen by the CEB men at the centre as essential for efficiency was seen by many in the divisions as an unnecessary drag on initiative and responsibility . |
9 | In its guidelines on the DMS and other ‘ courses for managers ’ issued in 1979 the Council defined access to the Diploma — which had been seen from the outset as a postgraduate award — in terms of flexible entry : in addition to the broad treatment of management studies and its supporting disciplines it incorporated |
10 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
11 | In the US the historic walls which had been built between the banking system and the savings and loans were breached without attention to the integrity of the financial system . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
14 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
15 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
16 | After this , if the weather was fine , there would be a procession to the life size model of the grotto of Lourdes , which had been built in the recreation ground out of a kind of artificial rock closely resembling anthracite . |
17 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
18 | The machine , which had been built in the late nineteen sixties , had been delivered to Mrs Handy 's home on May the fourteenth after she had bought it through a relative . |
19 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
20 | Between Tripoli and Gabes , there was a fortified belt known as the Mareth line which had been built before the war by the French to hinder Italian ambitions to expand their empire into Tunisia . |
21 | He appealed to the pseudo-science of ‘ phrenology ’ , which had been built around the assumption that the shape of the brain determined a person 's character . |
22 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |
23 | Nearly 14 tonnes of gold deposited in the United Kingdom had been sold under a February 1967 Soviet-UK agreement to pay compensation to UK citizens for property which had been lost during the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states [ see p. 21882 ] . |
24 | The conference also discussed promoting " triangular trade " between eastern Europe and the CIS using third-party finance , in the hope that this would restore some of the trade between the Soviet Union and eastern Europe which had been lost with the transfer to hard-currency accounting in January 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] . |
25 | The momentum towards European Union which had been gained with the agreement in December 1991 on the Maastricht Treaty and its signature in February 1992 [ see pp. 38657-59 ; 38785 ] was severely undermined by the Danish June 2 referendum result , opposing ratification of the Treaty . |
26 | Cornburgh , for instance , had organized the finances of the 1481 expedition against the Scots , which had been led by the duke . |
27 | The Attorney General Rogelio Cruz announced on Oct. 7 that a military coup against President Guillermo Endara Galimany had been thwarted and that four former officers , who had belonged to the now defunct Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) which had been led by the deposed ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega , had been arrested . |
28 | Cornburgh , for instance , had organized the finances of the 1481 expedition against the Scots , which had been led by the duke . |
29 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
30 | post-war instructions from Moscow ( the Comintern had been dissolved in 1943 ) were to maintain the policy of cooperation with democratic forces which had been implemented during the latter stages of the war . |