Example sentences of "which [vb past] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 2 | Behind him the eastern sky was already brightening , and the wasteland , which had been a formless void of darkness above the lumpy earth , was assuming an identity and a shape . |
| 3 | The kitchen , which had been a uniform grey , was dappled with sunlight , she saw ; outside , a blackbird sang . |
| 4 | The agreement did not provide for a specific " quota of power " for the FMLN , an issue which had been a major sticking-point in negotiations . |
| 5 | Raoul Cédras , which had been a major demand of Aristide . |
| 6 | ( The ban on presidential re-election , which had been a central issue in the Mexican revolution of 1910 , was seen by the opposition as a bulwark against the consolidation of authoritarian PRI rule in an effectively single-party state . ) |
| 7 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 8 | It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham . |
| 9 | The Plymouth Brethren were founded in that year of 1820 , by an Anglican ex-clergyman , on the basis of strict Calvinism , which had been a considerable influence earlier on John Wesley , but not embraced by him . |
| 10 | But he was in a peer mechanism which had been a longstanding thing with trade unionism management for many years , with no replacement . |
| 11 | After a hurried cup of tea at my house we were on our way to do a climb which had been a longstanding ambition of Norman 's — Via Media on Craig Aderyn , probably the best medium-grade slab pitch in Snowdonia . |
| 12 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 13 | This implied the eventual disbanding of the rural ‘ communes ’ which had been an essential part of Mao s agricultural policy . |
| 14 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 15 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |