Example sentences of "[noun sg] which have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Then he extracted the cassette , hauling out the length of tape which had been recording and stuffed both items in his jacket pocket . |
| 4 | It is based on the National Child Development Study which has been following a cohort of some 15,000 people from their birth in 1958 to early adulthood . |
| 5 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 6 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 7 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 8 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 9 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 10 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 11 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 12 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 13 | The company already applies its US parent 's ‘ Earthsense ’ creed which has been spreading its ‘ reduce , re-use and recycle ’ message for several years ( thousands of US freshmen are not given an Earthsense re-usable beaker at the beginning of their college careers in the hope of steering them away from disposables ) . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 15 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 17 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 18 | Strangely , it also sliced through the air of unreality which had been preventing Vologsky from facing the real issues . |
| 19 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The , the committee which has been probing probing the massive pensions theft by former Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell warns that this could be just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 22 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 23 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 24 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 25 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 26 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 27 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 28 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 29 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 30 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |