Example sentences of "which had been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 4 | Their design was a radical departure from the traditional concept of a tramcar , and incorporated features of styling and comfort which had been seen only in motor-coaches of the day . |
| 5 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 6 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 7 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 8 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 9 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 10 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 11 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 12 | It replaced three older small stations which had been built there in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 13 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 14 | A. Not long ago the owners of industries in the ports and towns on either side of the Pennines relied on a transport system , or distribution system , which had been built gradually by individual businessmen . |
| 15 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 16 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the reforms which had been implemented up to 1990 did not emerge from discussions between the communities concerned and the government but have been imposed from above . |
| 18 | When restrictions were placed on the amount of foreign music that could be played , more of the new urban music , which had been recorded commercially , was broadcast . |
| 19 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 20 | Presently , in the silence that followed these remarks , the two young women heard the sound of distant guns more distant , it seemed , than the sepoy cannons which had been firing intermittently throughout their conversation ; this sound echoed from across the dark rim of the plain . |
| 21 | This time they had to round up more horses which had been living almost wild . |
| 22 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 23 | Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters . |
| 24 | He swept off his black fur cap and his heavy cloak , revealing the scarlet velvet and golden armour which had been hidden beneath . |
| 25 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 26 | Thus while the original concern was not dealt with , other issues which had been raised earlier were . |
| 27 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
| 28 | They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock . |
| 29 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 30 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |