Example sentences of "which [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 2 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 3 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 4 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 5 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 6 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 7 | Kibona said that 42 per cent of government spending would be devoted to tackling transport and communications problems , which were hindering economic recovery . |
| 8 | But the collapse of the junk-bond market is a big blow to the scores of companies which were planning new offerings . |
| 9 | Breakfast was served in a long , low-ceilinged room , with a deep fireplace , on which were roasting several animals which Snodgrass said , in an awed whisper to Fenella , were oxen . |
| 10 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |
| 11 | On Aug. 22 some 30,000 workers protested in Brasov ( Romania 's second largest city ) about shortages of raw materials which were paralysing machine-building factories , and poor working conditions and food supplies . |
| 12 | Some of the authors were also aware of new approaches to the study of organic relationships that were being discussed in France and which were leading radical anatomists to challenge Cuvier 's authority . |
| 13 | I mean , one 's , one 's entitled to ask I think if there is no problem , if we only have vacancies of two or three in our elderly persons homes throughout the county wh erm why on earth did the director of the social serv , did the director of social services and his deputy at the meeting on the twenty fifth of August of the social services committee , say that this was the greatest problem which was facing this council . |
| 14 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 15 | The main reasons for the delay have been my interest in self-preservation , my desire to protect the members of the gang , and my fear of exacerbating the gang situation in Glasgow which was receiving nationwide attention in 1968 and 1969 . |
| 16 | Topaz clawed Andrew 's back , silently begging him to satisfy the ravenous craving within her which was reaching unbearable proportions . |
| 17 | The immediate impetus for the agreement was the need to relax the blockade , which was causing immense hardship to the island 's 120,000 population and which , according to some estimates , had resulted in the deaths of as many as 3,000 people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 20 | The United States Carter Centre , incorporating the Council for Freely Elected Heads of Government , which was supervising electoral preparations , had found in October that some 130,000 eligible voters had been omitted from the electoral register of a potential 350,000 names and that others were registered in the wrong areas . |
| 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 | This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis was reported in late April as expressing " concern " over the number of attacks mounted by underground groups over the past six months , and said that his government would intensify the drive against terrorism , which was discouraging foreign tourists . |
| 24 | He had become the singer with a group which was exciting some interest among the A&R men and women of London 's record companies , including Steve Lewis , the head of Virgin 's music publishing company . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You have to remember that Americans only found this endemic American music in the '60s when they began listening to English groups , who were doing something really important , which was taking black music and making it louder . |
| 27 | She gave a light , forced little laugh , moving away from the touch of his hand , which was wreaking such havoc on emotions she had tried so hard to keep under control . |
| 28 | There was some concern expressed at the Director being singled out for criticism , but the Chief Officer considered that the criticism was necessary ‘ since it was the leadership which was stifling academic development and progress ’ . |
| 29 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 30 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |