Example sentences of "which had [be] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs the old house seemed to be on a multitude of different levels , with steps up and down , unexpected recesses and windows , all of which had been given a character of their own , by a carefully chosen ornament or floral arrangement . |
| 2 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 3 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 4 | When this collapsed in 1878 , he got a post as a junior clerk with the Distillers Company Limited , which had been formed a year earlier by six of the largest Lowland patent distillers to rationalize production . |
| 5 | This boost did much to wipe out the effect of Balfour 's referendum pledge , which had been made a month before the Reciprocity Agreement and was erroneously believed to be its cause . |
| 6 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 7 | " It 's a good thing Rossmayne is strong , " said Amsterdam , still very troubled by the dark emotions which had been unleashed a night or two before . |
| 8 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 9 | The Office of Works were determined to re-exhibit only those parts of a competitor 's work which had been awarded a premium , and consequently cut up some drawings to make this possible . |