Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 2 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 3 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 4 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 5 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 6 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 7 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 8 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 9 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 10 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 11 | But there 's also a moral evolution that 's been going on . |
| 12 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 13 | Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class . |
| 14 | She decides to seek medical help for bulimia , the nervous illness that has been dogging her marriage almost from the start . |
| 15 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 16 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 17 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |
| 18 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 19 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 20 | Then , ‘ Wait a minute , ’ he interrupted himself , unclasping his left hand that had been holding hers , and reaching out to brush her hair . |
| 21 | While everyone was careful to avoid the word ‘ black ’ in their statements , the fact remains that the ‘ minority ’ workshop , which was overseen by one Ramona Edelin of the National Urban Coalition , an urban action organisation founded in 1967 , was really a reflection on the efforts of some of the black inspired programmes that have been running for years in America . |
| 22 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 23 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 24 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 25 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 26 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 27 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 28 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 29 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 30 | That was the missing element that has been missing among the Limerick teams , especially in the AIL . |