Example sentences of "which [vb past] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an encounter during a summer holiday in Sydney , which included being the butt of a four-hour tongue lashing , I can not write with detachment . |
| 2 | Sitting on a stone in the middle of the water was the large frog that Mildred had often seen , and which had been the inspiration for the tale which had scared Ethel 's sister . |
| 3 | She had no formal education at all and was brought up by her paternal grandmother at Myrtle Grove , Youghal , which had been the home of Sir Walter Raleigh when he was the Governor of Ireland . |
| 4 | A photograph taken by Devereux in January 1986 of a larger stone on the western side of the circle , which had been the subject of short-term magnetic anomalies , showed a discharge from the top of the stone . |
| 5 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 6 | He spent some hours in the United Kingdom on May 18 , visiting a plant of Royal Ordnance , a British Aerospace subsidiary , to review the development of a multiple rocket artillery system which had been the subject of a contract signed in September 1990 by Royal Ordnance and the Chilean firm Famae . |
| 7 | Congress also approved the party 's second political platform and 10-year socioeconomic plan , both of which had been the subject of widespread , and often contentious , debate following their adoption at the party 's 10th plenum held in November 1990 [ see p. 37916 ] . |
| 8 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 9 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 10 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |
| 11 | When this book was first written , for example , no comprehensive study existed of the effects of land reform in eastern Europe after 1918 although many states then embarked upon schemes for the break-up of the great estates which had been the framework of economy and society in the east since the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | The senior American , and the New Zealander , were right-wingers of a purity I 'd thought extinct , little imagining that the vogue for radical chic — which had been the orthodoxy of the day in Toronto — was now no more than the memory of an ebb tide . |
| 13 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 14 | During his reign the factions of the court destroyed the stable ministerial tradition which had been the precondition of his father 's achievements , substituting for it the rule of a favourite — the queen 's supposed lover , Godoy . |
| 15 | A presidential decree of Jan. 24 established the Russian Federation Ministry of Security ( RFMS ) , on the basis of the Russian Federal Security Agency [ see pp. 38654 ; 38731 ] and the Inter-Republican Security Service , which had been the successor to the USSR KGB [ see p. 38654 ] and had then been incorporated into the Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs , abolished in January as being unconstitutional [ see p. 38731 ] . |
| 16 | The thought of ‘ New Liberalism ’ was shaped by the fact that during the period 1880–1914 a great deal of interventionist legislation had been enacted , much of which had been the responsibility of Liberal governments . |
| 17 | The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , which had been the parent body of the Survey since 1919 , ceased to exist . |
| 18 | Sarajevo radio broadcast a dramatic appeal from civilians trapped in the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Cerska , which had been the destination of a UN relief convoy that was ordered back to base after the aid suspension . |
| 19 | Up to this time all the Science teaching had taken place in the top corridor overlooking the tennis courts ; here were the Sykes Lecture Room , a small Chemistry preparation room , a large Chemistry laboratory , a small Physics laboratory ( which had been the Art Room prior to the 1937 expansion ) , and a small room in the tower . |
| 20 | Both women arrived without warning one morning at the home of Mary 's grandfather , which had been the girl 's permanent home . |
| 21 | There was a tradition that the Kha-Khan not be required to turn his back upon his people , and so they carried him facing out across the crowd , and placed him directly in front of the seat of the reclining dragon which had been the throne of Tamujin , Ancestor of the Altun , the first Kha-Khan . |
| 22 | The Seven , which had been the mainstay of the company for several years , was under threat . |
| 23 | The late fifth-century Legend of St Sylvester was represented in the portico or main entrance of the medieval Lateran basilica which had been the church of the Emperor Constantine . |
| 24 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 25 | Britain , which had been the workshop of the world now had to become the grammar school of the world . |
| 26 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 27 | Of course it was only an experiment and did n't last long : by 1884 the Court Directory for London lists William as an engraver once more — this generation of Titfords seemed to lack the heart for such enterprises , which had been the speciality of their father , Benjamin the Silversmith . |
| 28 | In the early seventies I worked in Bergen in Germany , which had been the site of the Belsen concentration camp , and the whole place was heavy with an air of misery , fear and evil . |
| 29 | A great avalanche of steel and concrete had crashed downwards into the shaft which had been the stairwell ; gathering bulk , weight and destructive momentum from floor to floor as it collapsed . |
| 30 | And it was that distress , outwardly forgotten , which had been the root cause of her lifelong claustrophobia . |