Example sentences of "which [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 2 | Behind him the eastern sky was already brightening , and the wasteland , which had been a formless void of darkness above the lumpy earth , was assuming an identity and a shape . |
| 3 | The kitchen , which had been a uniform grey , was dappled with sunlight , she saw ; outside , a blackbird sang . |
| 4 | The agreement did not provide for a specific " quota of power " for the FMLN , an issue which had been a major sticking-point in negotiations . |
| 5 | Raoul Cédras , which had been a major demand of Aristide . |
| 6 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |
| 7 | ( The ban on presidential re-election , which had been a central issue in the Mexican revolution of 1910 , was seen by the opposition as a bulwark against the consolidation of authoritarian PRI rule in an effectively single-party state . ) |
| 8 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 9 | It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham . |
| 10 | This followed the rediscovery of the Sarum Use , which had been a local medieval modification of the Roman rite , used in nearly every place in Britain by the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | The Plymouth Brethren were founded in that year of 1820 , by an Anglican ex-clergyman , on the basis of strict Calvinism , which had been a considerable influence earlier on John Wesley , but not embraced by him . |
| 12 | After a hurried cup of tea at my house we were on our way to do a climb which had been a longstanding ambition of Norman 's — Via Media on Craig Aderyn , probably the best medium-grade slab pitch in Snowdonia . |
| 13 | But he was in a peer mechanism which had been a longstanding thing with trade unionism management for many years , with no replacement . |
| 14 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 15 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 16 | This implied the eventual disbanding of the rural ‘ communes ’ which had been an essential part of Mao s agricultural policy . |
| 17 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 18 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
| 19 | Albania , which had been the only European non-participant , had expressed its desire to join and was granted observer status at the summit , but on Nov. 20 lodged a formal complaint stating that " the failure of some states to allow a consensus for Albania 's full participation … is incomprehensible " [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ] . |
| 20 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 21 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 22 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 23 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 24 | The conference ( a triennial meeting scheduled between NAM summits ) took place in the context of the effective ending of the " Cold War " , the issue which had been the immediate stimulus for the original formation of the Non-aligned Movement in 1961 . |
| 25 | The dismantling of the Communist system , which had been the immediate priority of the new government elected in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , was followed by the framing of a new constitution regulating the relationship between the federal government and the two constituent republics . |
| 26 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 27 | Later , as they strolled on neat walkways and over pretty Oriental stone bridges , Luke 's mood grew more relaxed , so Maria reintroduced the subject which had been the initial cause of their earlier conflict . |
| 28 | Manufacturing , which had been the leading sector in 1989 , was expected to be less significant in 1990 , with a world fall in demand for computer hardware . |
| 29 | The area to the south of Saville Street which had been the commercial centre for the port was already in a state of decay with banks , etc. moving north towards residential areas . |
| 30 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |