Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [verb] [adv prt] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 6 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock . |
| 12 | The Common contained a disused quarry , two ponds and a steep-sided stream , all of which had been fenced off after years of complaint . |
| 13 | The most exciting was the white water rapids and jets of water which had been created out of doors . |
| 14 | Christopher Morrison , prosecuting , said Marriner had tried to obtain money from Crown Street post office in Darlington with a Giro cheque which had been written over and smashed windows at two health centres in the town . |
| 15 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |
| 16 | She hurried across the course and pushed through a knot of ghoulish spectators who were standing gloomily by the area which had been cordoned off . |
| 17 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 18 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 19 | Amid the resumption of trade and consular relations with various East European countries , diplomatic relations with Hungary , which had been broken off in 1973 , were resumed on Jan. 11 , 1990 , and with Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union on March 11 . |
| 20 | Guatemala and the Soviet Union on Jan. 4 signed an agreement at the UN headquarters in New York re-establishing diplomatic relations which had been broken off in 1947 . |
| 21 | Ground staff were called in to repair an area of turf which had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel . |
| 22 | She stood fingering the tresses of the willow , branches of which wept over the upturned hull of a boat , which had been dug out of the peat bog to the north of the island and was permanently on display . |
| 23 | On the back was the beginning of a letter , which had been crossed out , but was still legible . |
| 24 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 25 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 26 | The gun roared angrily again and the inoffensive family man slumped sideways against the treacherous door , minus the top of his skull , which had been blasted out through the open side window . |
| 27 | Maggie came upon a pile of massive boulders , which had been swept down off the hills . |
| 28 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 29 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 30 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |