Example sentences of "which had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 2 | He draws a clear line between individual patronage which had declined by this time , and the subscription method which , while it left authors obliged especially to those who solicited for them , reduced individual dependence : |
| 3 | Long before the doors of the Chinese empire opened to the West , travellers in other parts of the globe were sending plants and seeds back to the motherland to enrich or replace those native collections which had existed in some cases from early times . |
| 4 | The scholarship , the skill , the work and the love which had gone into this section of his gardens struck him forcibly . |
| 5 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 6 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 7 | Control Data Corp , Memorex Corp , Storage Technology Corp , and those thrusting newcomers Seagate Technology Inc and Tandon Corp , which had seen off such old-timers as Shugart Corp and Pertec Computer Corp . |
| 8 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 9 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 10 | The most important point at issue was the tactic of infiltration which had led to several splits in the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the dominant group in Trotsky 's Fourth International . |
| 11 | When Jesus died , faith in his message died as well and his movement , which had begun with such promise , collapsed . |
| 12 | In Italy a few famous and ancient republics — Venice , Genoa , Lucca — continued to exist ; and in some of them republican government , even in the highly oligarchical form which had prevailed in these small States for centuries , continued to arouse genuine loyalty . |
| 13 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 14 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 15 | Mr Hamilton also took a swipe at the defence select committee 's report which had called for all infantry battalion amalgamations , including merger of four Scottish regiments , to be cancelled . |
| 16 | In the case of Appalachia , thousands of hectares have been destroyed by strip ( open-cast ) coal mining , and by the flooding , loss of agricultural land , soil erosion and pollution of fresh water supplies which had resulted from this wholesale desecration and the subsequent failure to attempt proper reclamation . |
| 17 | The day before it was due to take effect , the tenant , having learnt of the order , made an application to set aside the order for possession and the judgment which had resulted in that order . |
| 18 | This boycott had begun on Jan. 18 after an altercation between an employee of one of the shops and a Haitian woman customer , which had resulted in each accusing the other of assault and racial insults . |
| 19 | On the very day that the Garotter 's Act became law , the essential distinction between right and wrong faltered appreciably in the pages of The Times where a disturbance was noted at Cremorne Gardens which had resulted in some upper-class rowdies being heavily fined . |
| 20 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 21 | Local ANC organizers apparently convinced the ANC executive that hostility between the rival groupings , which had resulted in some 40 deaths in the preceding week , was such that a joint rally posed a serious security problem . |
| 22 | The level of violence ( which had resulted in some 5,000 deaths since the breakdown of peace talks in June 1990 ) fell dramatically during the period of the ceasefire , although each side accused the other of extensive violations . |
| 23 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 24 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 25 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 26 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |