Example sentences of "[noun] which have [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 2 | The unrest which had been escalating in Azerbaijan since the outbreak in February 1988 of the dispute with neighbouring Armenia over the Nagorny Karabakh region [ for December 1989 developments see p. 37128 ] , exploded in mid-January into intercommunal violence across the republic and on the Armenian border . |
| 3 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 4 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 5 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 6 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 7 | This course gives students the opportunity to study in-depth the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 8 | This option is of particular interest to students who wish to increase their awareness and understanding of the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 9 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 10 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 11 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 12 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 13 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |
| 14 | In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination . |
| 15 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |