Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [be] [v-ing] " 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 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 3 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 4 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 5 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 6 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |
| 7 | The Tharos , which had been acting as a support vessel to the Piper Alpha platform was anchored close by . |
| 8 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 9 | Barbarossa 's initial aim was to unify Germany , and settle a number of conflicts which had been weakening the realm . |
| 10 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 11 | Then , as she was about halfway along the trees of Wardle Wood , the storm , which had been rumbling and threatening all the way , burst . |
| 12 | Presently , in the silence that followed these remarks , the two young women heard the sound of distant guns more distant , it seemed , than the sepoy cannons which had been firing intermittently throughout their conversation ; this sound echoed from across the dark rim of the plain . |
| 13 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 14 | This time they had to round up more horses which had been living almost wild . |
| 15 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 16 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 17 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 18 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The news item was on the front page : the British Government , which had been sending aid and supplies to Poland to assist her fight against the Russian Soviet , had changed its policy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As a result , Mackensen was freed to attack the northern region of Serbia ; and Bulgaria , which had been watching the fortunes of war , anxious to identify the winning side , joined the Central Powers on 6 September 1915 . |
| 28 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 29 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 30 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |