Example sentences of "which [verb] [been] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 2 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 3 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 4 | A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford . |
| 5 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 6 | Uniao Nacional para a Independência total de Angola ( UNITA — Union for the Total Independence of Angola , Jonas Savimbi l. ) , a rebel nationalist group backed , financially and militarily , by South Africa and the United States , which has been fighting the MPLA-PT government since independence ; Movement for Socialist Unity in Angola ( MUSA , formed by leaders from the three mainstream nationalist movements in 1977 ) ; in July 1990 the creation was announced of the Angolan Social Democratic Party ( PSDA , an offshoot of MUSA , Moises André Lima l. ) ; the Frente de Libertaçao do Enclave de Cabinda ( FLEC — The Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave , Francisco Xavier Lubota pres. ) and the National Union for the Liberation of Cabinda ( UNLC ) fight for the secession of Cabinda district . |
| 7 | The play was a brilliant pot-boiler which has been reinforcing the Jewish sterotype ever since . |
| 8 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 9 | Early indications from the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland , which has been testing the Californian findings , suggest that the drug does produce Parkinson-like symptoms . |
| 10 | The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath . |
| 11 | In democratic elections held on June 10 and 17 , Bulgaria , alone among the countries of Eastern Europe , returned to power the former ruling party , the erstwhile Bulgarian Communist Party which had been renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) on April 3 [ see pp. 37380-81 ] . |
| 12 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 13 | Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires . |
| 14 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 15 | He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year . |
| 16 | There were no injuries and damage was confined to the car , which had been hijacked the previous night in west Belfast . |
| 17 | At the end of the Irkutsk talks Baker left for Mongolia , but he cut short his visit to meet Shevardnadze in Moscow on Aug. 3 to discuss the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , which had been launched the previous day [ see pp. 37631-41 for coverage of Gulf crisis , including Baker-Shevardnadze joint statement ] . |
| 18 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 19 | In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg . |
| 20 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 21 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 22 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 23 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 24 | Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons . |