Example sentences of "which had [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tharos , which had been acting as a support vessel to the Piper Alpha platform was anchored close by . |
| 2 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 3 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 4 | I stopped in mid-stride , so suddenly that an oystercatcher , which had been guddling among the reeds at the edge of the lochan , took off seawards with a screamed complaint . |
| 5 | The coordinator Rebecca Johnson says they failed to re-establish contact with the vessel , which had been protesting against the resumption of nuclear testing on the island . |
| 6 | His voice was quiet , not like her own , which had been rising with every syllable , but he was angry all the same , she could feel it , even down the miles of telephone cable that separated them . |
| 7 | In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination . |
| 8 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 9 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 10 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 11 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 12 | The freeing of political parties in March 1990 led to the formation of numerous new parties and the emergence as official opposition of some of those which had been operating within the FNDR . |
| 13 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 14 | This rapid development quelled the movement , which had been proceeding behind the scenes , to replace Attlee with a more obviously partisan anti-Churchillian such as Morrison . |
| 15 | The conference would be held in the USA under the auspices of the UN , which had been mediating in the Cyprus conflict since Turkey invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island in 1974 [ see pp. 26661-66 ; 26709-10 ] . |
| 16 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 17 | At this point in his writing a white pigeon which had been fluttering round the swimming-pool alighted on the table , took two steps forward and excreted on the ‘ Jottings ’ , no doubt in the interests of historical accuracy . |
| 18 | The non-intervention policy with regard to ‘ lame ducks ’ was effectively abandoned with the politically inescapable rescue of Rolls Royce and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders , and the 1972 Industry Bill marked a return to the kind of industrial policy which had been evolving over the 1960s with the formation of NEDC and IRC . |
| 19 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
| 20 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 21 | Some anomalies which had been arising as a result of the previous piecemeal evolution of means-tested benefit were eliminated . |
| 22 | Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately . |
| 23 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 24 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 25 | Am hour later the Emperor 's coach passed the corpse , disturbing the flies which had been crawling over the dead Lieutenant 's face and laying their eggs in his blood-filled mouth and nostrils . |