Example sentences of "which had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 2 | The relaxed air which had reigned in the warm little living room of Rose Cottage seemed suddenly to have evaporated . |
| 3 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |
| 4 | The hostilities which had followed upon the previous confiscations of 1294 and 1324 had not been long-lasting . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education . |
| 6 | They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union . |
| 7 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 8 | Formalizing a consensus which had emerged in the previous month [ see p. 38937 ] , the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , meeting in Oslo , Norway , on June 4 , reached agreement on the alliance 's future role in international peacekeeping operations , notably in support of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 9 | At this stage Castro , at least in public , was holding himself aloof from two disputing tendencies which had emerged from the various parties to the revolution . |
| 10 | He then experimentally removed an owner , and allowed a previous intruder ( which had lost against the removed owner ) to establish itself in the territory . |
| 11 | The county town had a large , vigorous WEA branch with an impressive record of activity which had extended throughout the previous decade . |
| 12 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 13 | The Communist Party , which had campaigned against the new constitution , saw its parliamentary representation decimated , while the non-communist left , which had been split on the constitution , lost half of its seats . |
| 14 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 15 | All four of our mystics wrote in what we now call Middle English , a language which had developed after the Norman Conquest and which grafted French onto the old Anglo-Saxon . |
| 16 | the rain which had threatened in a previous scene |
| 17 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 18 | The meeting was concerned with a new Australian peace plan which proposed a large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia and which had met with a favourable response at the UN Security Council during January and February . |
| 19 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 20 | Some were small but violent , like Islamic Jihad , which had broken from the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1960s . |
| 21 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 22 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 23 | The Financial Services Act of 1986 aimed to fulfil this need , as well as to abolish some of the inconsistencies which had crept into the existing regulatory system for the financial services industry . |
| 24 | It should not escape our notice that it was not only successes on land but those associated with aspects of the war at sea which had contributed towards the satisfactory situation which he described . |
| 25 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 26 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 27 | Vitor frowned up at the scattering of cloud which had appeared in the clear blue sky . |
| 28 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 29 | It was a long report of the inquest on Melanie Gandell which had appeared in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 30 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |