Example sentences of "which had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables .
2 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 .
3 Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth .
4 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 ] .
5 It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year .
10 There were no injuries and damage was confined to the car , which had been hijacked the previous night in west Belfast .
11 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 ] .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year .
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