Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall . |
| 2 | It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century . |
| 3 | You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development . |
| 4 | He has provided a much needed corrective to the over-individualistic approach to conversion which has been characteristic of many western evangelists and missionaries . |
| 5 | This undoubtedly developed a practice of regional collegiality which has been characteristic of the post-conciliar Church . |
| 6 | Carter are touring America in a huge tour bus , which has been home to the ten-strong crew and band for a month-and-a-half . |
| 7 | Romance and elegance are the hallmarks of this sophisticated city which has been home to more great composers and inspired more great music than anywhere else on earth . |
| 8 | A spooky tale about a woman who returns to the stately which has been home to the Stafford Dynasty for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | ‘ I can not express in words the love and care which has been show to me by all my Christian friends since Mam died . ’ |
| 10 | A smaller amount was to go to the theological college which I had attended and which has been host to many students from Africa . ) |
| 11 | The big American computer users — such as Boeing and General Motors — which had been pioneers of intra-company networks , were also natural supporters of OSI . |
| 12 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 13 | On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] . |
| 14 | During October the European free market price for 99.5 per cent pure cobalt , which had been £15 per lb ( roughly $33 000 per tonne ; £1 = $1.80 ) — or as low as $11 per lb for long term contracts direct with supplier — shot up to around $30 per lb . |
| 15 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 16 | Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 . |
| 17 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 18 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 19 | In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour . |
| 20 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 21 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 22 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 23 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 24 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Fully awake now , Polly lay absolutely still , her mind racing as she tried to work out what was real and what had been part of her dream . |
| 26 | What have been effects of the changes on the spending departments and their relationships with the Treasury ? |