Example sentences of "which had been taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year . |
| 2 | After the vote , which had been taken in the Vladislav Chamber , where the Kings of Bohemia were once crowned , Mr Havel was sworn in . |
| 3 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 4 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 5 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 6 | At the Northampton Forest Eyre of 1255 John Lovet , a verderer , had to pay the substantial fine of twelve marks ‘ for mendacity and concealment ’ : he had contradicted his roll by saying that the deer which had been taken in the forest by the men of the parson of Eaton Maudit ‘ was a certain sheep ’ . |
| 7 | At the diet of princes in Frankfurt ( 1147 ) he demanded the return of Bavaria , which had been taken from his father by Emperor Conrad III and bestowed upon an Austrian vassal . |
| 8 | The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 . |
| 9 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 10 | This latter vessel was hit by two torpedoes fired from the damaged Italian destroyer ‘ Tarigo ’ , which had been taken over by Sottotenente di Vascello Ettore Bisagno , the only surviving officer , after the commander had been killed ; the British ship went down near Kerkenah Island , but all the crew were rescued . |
| 11 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 12 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 13 | They waved goodbye at the door and got into the Jaguar well pleased at the chunk which had been taken out of the Guinness Mahon share mountain . |
| 14 | Feminist sociologists ' arguments showed that ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ which had been taken for granted as natural were in fact social in origin : these roles had to learned by young people . |
| 15 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 16 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 17 | Peter Northfield , public affairs manager for the Great Eastern division of BR 's Network SouthEast , said some commuters were angry because they normally used the carriage which had been taken over by protesters . |
| 18 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
| 19 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |
| 20 | Rostov understood why the precautions which had been taken to quarantine Tarvaras were so strict . |
| 21 | It was a particular , exact colour ; Musgrave had seen it only once before , in a special department of the Bank of England where they incinerated notes which had been taken out of circulation . |
| 22 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 23 | The Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Treaty , first signed in 1948 [ see p. 9228 ] , bound Finland to a military defence pact and prevented it from joining any international organization whose members posed a military threat to the Soviet Union — a definition which had been taken to include the EC . |
| 24 | The delay had been caused by uncertainty over the status of Vneshekonombank , the former Soviet foreign affairs bank , which had been taken over by Russia in December [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 25 | The Lebanese army on July 24 began the repossession of buildings which had been taken over by the various militias during the civil war . |
| 26 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 27 | Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing . |
| 28 | An acid glycine extract ELISA technique was used to test for H pylori as described by Goodwin et al , and was performed in 1991 on serum samples , which had been taken in 1969 , 1978 , and November/December 1990 . |
| 29 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 30 | Mr Wood recalled an incident last year when the Stokesley group was asked to find a site for the release of a badger which had been taken to Throckley . |