Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 2 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 3 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 4 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 5 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 6 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 7 | On Feb. 9 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that the security services had uncovered a fundamentalist group which had been compiling false reports on the human rights situation in Egypt to tarnish the country 's reputation abroad . |
| 8 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 9 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |