Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy .
2 There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions .
3 For up-market small-party charter hire , InterCity also procured the former London Midland Region general manager 's saloon No 6320 — something of a hybrid , comprising a special body on a Mk 1 underframe and B4 bogies , which had been converted for dual braking and electric train heating .
4 The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions .
5 Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years .
6 As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests .
7 Survival , l(x) , and fertility , m(x) , in the two sexes , as a function of time since eclosion , for lines of Drosophila melanogaster which had been selected for early or late reproduction .
8 Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years .
9 The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 .
10 James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley .
11 The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit .
12 The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) .
13 Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks .
14 It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame .
15 It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners .
16 Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use .
17 Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months :
18 On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June .
19 Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time .
20 There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam .
21 The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors .
22 When Aramco was told to cut production by 10 per cent and then , on top of that , shut in liftings equivalent to that which had been produced for ultimate sale to the USA in pre-embargo months , the company dutifully cut production back 23 per cent below September levels .
23 Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out .
24 In an attempt to avoid rural unrest , Chamorro confirmed that it would be impossible to return land confiscated and distributed among peasants who now held legal title or that which had been confiscated for important public purposes .
25 The situation rapidly became chaotic , and a 250-bedded hospital , which had been allotted for these cases , contained some 1000 patients , when in 1915 Harrison was urgently called upon to sort things out .
26 The king provoked hostility by seeking to use his prerogative rights to raise money , and by requiring the payment of debts , many of which had been respited for many years .
27 Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions .
28 A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian .
29 The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme .
30 He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths .
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