Example sentences of "[noun] which [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed .
2 Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear .
3 Philippa felt something gripping her in the area just behind her breastbone which sent a message up to the area somewhere above her eyes which were growing tired with concentration .
4 Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent .
5 I refer to the lively campaign being waged in the United States which is affecting many of their best-known golf clubs .
6 My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values .
7 Another alternative which is attracting increasing attention is the development of legal expenses insurances against such risks which has been welcomed and sponsored by The Law Society ( White , Robin , 1984 ) .
8 One alternative which is attracting increasing interest is drag hunting , where the horses and hounds chase an artificial scent .
9 Kalchu X to me and , looking pleased with himself , opened out his opi which was bulging full of meat .
10 Now Durham County Council has told the group 's chairwoman Liz Walsh the 30-year-old building which is suffering serious subsidence problems is beyond repair and must be demolished .
11 Independence Technologies Inc picked up a $1.95m from Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Corp which is building large customer information , billing and network configuration applications with its iTran OLTP development tools , iView system management software and USL 's Tuxedo transaction monitor .
12 Now its has won favour with Hewlett-Packard Co which is endorsing Xcelerated 's Liken emulator for its Series 700 workstations , claiming the software rivals the performance of the Macintosh IIci on Mac applications under Unix .
13 They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight .
14 He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry .
15 Some good news on the A one , the earlier abnormal loads which were heading southbound and causing some quite lengthy delays near to Boroughbridge , they 're now parked up near to Wetherby so they 're not causing too many problems at the moment .
16 It 's a long way north — apparently out of the mainstream of the chaos which is afflicting Eastern Europe .
17 When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania .
18 WENSLEYDALE , better known for its cheese than its housing problems , is facing a serious shortage of houses which is forcing young people to move away from one of the most picturesque parts of the Yorkshire Dales , according to a survey published this week .
19 South East Sumatra : Production is currently at 180,000 bopd ( 6,500 net to LASMO ) , with the major contribution coming from the Widuri field which is producing 100,000 bopd .
20 The French Navy has begun an operation designed to clean up the toxic seaweed which is threatening marine life in the Mediterranean off the south coast [ see ED 53/54 ] .
21 It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity .
22 It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance .
23 that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that .
24 Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage .
25 Mr Smith said that , in the private sector , jobs were threatened by the recession which was causing some parents to transfer their children to State schools .
26 Secondly , there is the increasing demand in the developed world for wood and wood products which is placing more pressure on indigenous forests , while in many developing countries land and fuelwood scarcity as well as the need to earn foreign currency are prompting wood harvesting at a hitherto unprecedented rate and often under inadequate management .
27 The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation .
28 POLICE on both sides of the border are hunting a gang which is targeting elderly folk who live alone in isolated rural areas .
29 This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers .
30 This last short section concerns the fate of large institutional sites in the countryside , principally redundant hospital sites which are becoming available for redevelopment as the result of community care and other policies .
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