Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Right , so the company that we work for is and they are one of the a number of companies which are operating in the fleet driver training market , and erm they we pren presently have the contract with for this f f course of defensive driver training . |
| 2 | Inevitably there are underlying social complexities , such as land tenure and population growth , which are contributing to the problem but there is also evidence , from locations within the drainage basin where conservation measures are being introduced , that terracing and contour farming can not only reduce the risk of erosion but also increase productivity . |
| 3 | The answers have suggested new designs for housing , which are coming on the market . |
| 4 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 5 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 6 | It 's precisely prosperous towns like Wallingford which are suffering from the recession . |
| 7 | … a small wingy , leggy item runs across the screen of the VDU , interrupting my thoughts , which are dwelling on the possibilities of a 1,000-word essay on a woodlice-breeding camp . |
| 8 | Once more , general policies which are leading to the residualization of local authority housing are being reinforced by demographic trends . |
| 9 | The developers tend to argue that country living offers people a good quality of life , and that they are relieving pressure on towns which are bursting at the seams , such as Reading , Camberley and Swindon . |
| 10 | Since the Government came to power , my Pendle constituency has gained two new enterprise zones which are bursting at the seams , one new motorway and a brand new community hospital . |
| 11 | Coun Tony Chilton told the Borough 's development and environment committee yesterday : ‘ The benefits which are going to the towns seem very unfair , very biased . |
| 12 | A number of proposals are being worked on by housing associations , by voluntary housing bodies , by the Royal British Legion and by the Soldiers ' , Sailors ' and Airmen 's Families Association , which are working with the Confederation of British Industry , the Institute of Directors and the Department of Employment on a whole range of opportunities . |
| 13 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
| 14 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 15 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 16 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 17 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 18 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 19 | He was wearing a dirty old coat and seemed to divide his attention between his cooking and a number of silk handkerchieves , which were hanging near the fire . |
| 20 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 21 | Lighter spirits such as vodka and white rum had become more popular , the report said , along with a growing array of speciality spirits and spirit-based drinks , all of which were eating into the whisky market . |
| 22 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 23 | The ideal framework for the study of early Anglo-Saxon society is provided by the kingdoms which were developing during the period under consideration . |
| 24 | During the reign of Charles I there was a great flood of emigrants to North America and the West Indies , and a third type of colony appeared in addition to the colonies for English settlement and the trading posts which needed political power to function effectively : the colonies which were emerging in the West Indies were beginning to turn into plantations in the modern sense in which Englishmen directed the labour of other people . |
| 25 | Two further problems confronted the manager : was the national curriculum up to the age of 16 going to feed sensibly through to new policies which were emerging from the combination of general and vocational education from 16 to 19 ? |
| 26 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 27 | It was held that property in the incomplete ship passed on payment of the first instalment but that no property passed at that time in some materials which were Lying in the ship yard and might be used in the ship 's construction . |
| 28 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 29 | The tone here mocks both anthropology and the related theories of racial purity ( as seen in the work of Frobenius ) which were coming to the fore at that time . |
| 30 | And , as before , the result is an emphatic tone which is lacking in the example which does not involve reformulation . |