Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 2 | Information about the processing applied to the cross-references and the exceptions which arose is stored in the table . |
| 3 | The discrepancies which arose were recorded separately on the assessment file . |
| 4 | Turning to the stay of proceedings , the principles which applied were enshrined in The Abidin Daver ( 1984 ) AC 398 and The Spiliada ( 1987 ) AC 460 . |
| 5 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 6 | In this context , it should be noted that the rapid demolition of the colleges of education which followed was made possible by a unique regulator placed in the hands of the Secretary of State ; unlike the universities which are protected by a degree of autonomy and the polytechnics which are subject to a variety of controls and influences , overall teacher-training numbers and their distribution between individual institutions are directly controlled by the DES . |
| 7 | The embarrassed silence which followed was broken only when everyone turned to watch as the Simonova 's bay tractor beams started to draw the most recently captured platform through the force field . |
| 8 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |
| 9 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 10 | ‘ A driving offence which included being drunk in charge of a vehicle , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 11 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 12 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 13 | AN AMERICAN researcher compiled a list of 2,241 words in English all of which meant being drunk . |
| 14 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 15 | The high level of criminal litigation which ensued was taken as a sign that this policy had failed . |
| 16 | The sequence which emerged is reproduced below . |
| 17 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 18 | The bands which appeared were selected by the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) on behalf of the MU and the ICA . |
| 19 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 20 | Many settlers found the presence of this armed and organized people on their doorstep unnerving — Delamere , who treated them with a lordly tolerance , conspicuously did not — and so , conscious of the injustice which had been done , did the administration . |
| 21 | Subsequent to the first survey , which had been done very rapidly , Lapworth had established that graptolites held the key to deciphering the succession of the folded and faulted Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the region . |
| 22 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 23 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 24 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 25 | Marshall continued , stressing the amount of work which had been done and offsetting , he hoped , the poor impression caused by his lightheartedness . |
| 26 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 27 | Zoser , as rigid as Andrus and far less intelligent , had taken it upon himself to put right the wrong which had been done to his friend and his church . |
| 28 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 29 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 30 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |