Example sentences of "the [noun] that [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 2 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |
| 3 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 4 | Meantime , do n't throw away the sloes that have been steeping in the gin ; use them instead to make a wicked fruit pie with the bitter taste of sloe sweetened by the addition of sugar . |
| 5 | In 1949 , at the height of the Cold War , almost exactly ten years after the events themselves , the storm that had been brewing in Aragon 's mind since 1940 finally-burst , with the publication of Les Communistes . |
| 6 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been very very supportive of the exchange and all the operations that have been going on . |
| 8 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 9 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 10 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 11 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 12 | The outer door thumped shut , and the lock that had been holding back and resisting went home . |
| 13 | One of the shops that 's been selling Rave is the O-H-M clothing store in Gloucester . |
| 14 | Senna explained his version of the collision , saying : ‘ Nigel and I had passed the car that had been holding us up and then he braked earlier than I expected . |
| 15 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 16 | ‘ Was the rehearsal a success ? ’ she asked stiltedly , still plagued by the doubts that had been besetting her ever since leaving Gavin . |
| 17 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 18 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 19 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 20 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ soon became a popular venue for those with grievances and a focus for the dissent that had been growing under the surface for years . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up . |
| 22 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 23 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 24 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 25 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's a great player who can provide the skill that 's been lacking . ’ |
| 27 | In October 1987 the edginess that had been afflicting stock market dealings in London , New York and Tokyo grew steadily until it was a fully-fledged panic . |
| 28 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 29 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 30 | The breeze that had been lifting him , now began dragging him back , making everything heavy and sluggish . |