Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [vb pp] during the " in BNC.

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1 The Yasukuni shrine issue had sparked fierce controversy in 1985 when Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first post-war Prime Minister to make an official visit [ see p. 34559 ] , an action which drew fierce criticism from neighbouring countries which had suffered during the Pacific War .
2 Cataloguing of foreign atlases and cartographic reference works into the automated catalogue continued , and a backlog which had accumulated during the move into the new building , was removed .
3 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 .
4 The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 .
5 The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign .
6 Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris .
7 In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death .
8 P3731 ( which had arrived from ‘ Argus ’ with 418 Flight in August 1940 ) and V7370 ( which had arrived during the ill-fated second reinforcement flight in November of that year ) reached Palestine , and were later taken on charge by the newly-formed 127 Squadron .
9 This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 .
10 The outbreak of war found the Army wearing uniforms which had evolved during the Indian Wars , and which were unsuitable both for tropical campaigning , and for the dawning age of modern warfare .
11 Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years .
12 In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) .
13 The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die .
14 Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb .
15 THE start of the installation of the drainage system and the installation of the pelican crossing on the A31 were two of the major developments which had happened during the year .
16 Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth .
17 This , as we mentioned , was what had occurred during the Maccabean dynasty , Israel 's last monarchy .
18 It should be added that the barrister also apologised for what had happened during the exchanges in court before the judge discharged the jury .
19 He told her what had happened during the robbery ; she said nothing and her head returned to the table .
20 However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind .
21 What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ?
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