Example sentences of "[Wh det] had been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) , which had been given the task of co-ordinating the various bodies involved , was not over enthusiastic about the project ( Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it was the French Communist Party which had been given the task of encouraging communism in Vietnam ; and , it appears , where necessary , correcting its faults . |
| 4 | The meeting concluded with the unanimous approval of a resolution strongly condemning the policy of forced expulsions — the policy which had been given the name " ethnic cleansing " ( " etnicko ciscenje ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Barbarossa 's initial aim was to unify Germany , and settle a number of conflicts which had been weakening the realm . |
| 7 | The Council 's presidents this time would not hear of it , no doubt after the consternation which had been caused the day before , and it received a favourable vote . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | As a result , Mackensen was freed to attack the northern region of Serbia ; and Bulgaria , which had been watching the fortunes of war , anxious to identify the winning side , joined the Central Powers on 6 September 1915 . |
| 10 | The measures failed to satisfy the African National Congress ( ANC ) which had been demanding the restitution of land seized from blacks and other reparations for the victims of racial discrimination . |
| 11 | No sound came from within , for the mares now would be in the fields , including the little foal which had been born the night of the burglary . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |
| 16 | She inherited from her brother a methodical and intelligent Treasurer , the Marquis of Winchester ; and she also took over the conclusions of committees which had been investigating the Crown 's finances under Edward VI . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year . |
| 19 | When , in 1975 , PNG won its independence from Australia ( which had been running the place since 1949 ) , Bougainville formally became part of the new country . |
| 20 | There were no injuries and damage was confined to the car , which had been hijacked the previous night in west Belfast . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | Ryutaro Hashimoto , the Finance Minister , on Oct. 3 announced his resignation , effective Oct. 18 , as accusations mounted that he had failed to stem the tide of financial scandals which had been sweeping the country since the start of the year . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This high moorland village is an industrial settlement developed early in the nineteenth century to house lead-miners and their families employed by the Blackett family , which had been exploiting the deposits since 1729 . |
| 27 | United Left ( IU ) , which had been awarded the seat in a recount on Nov. 11 , appealed to the Constitutional Court against the decision . |
| 28 | The move follows the £1.4m out-of-court settlement agreed in July with the Tunstall Group , which had been suing the firm for damages for the losses it had incurred in purchasing Sound Diffusion shares ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 15 ) . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , the group which had been told the topic in advance performed best on the tests . |
| 30 | When a patient has failed to do what had been agreed the therapist must encourage him to explore in detail the reasons for this . |