Example sentences of "which had been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 2 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 3 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 6 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 7 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 8 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 9 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 10 | A close alignment with Egypt was established , confirming a relationship which had been improving since 1989 . |
| 11 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 12 | MI6 , the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , began life in 1911 under the control of the Foreign Office , which had been spying on other countries for over 400 years . |
| 13 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 14 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 15 | It was particularly disappointing as the Scots had shown signs of a refreshing midfield arrogance which had been missing from many of their recent displays . |
| 16 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 17 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |