Example sentences of "which [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , too , there was evidence on these cards of the conflicts which were raging in the minds of the garrison . |
| 2 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 3 | Yanto laughed as he realised his shoulders were covered with fish scales which were flashing in the dim light of the oil lamp . |
| 4 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 5 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 6 | He was wearing a dirty old coat and seemed to divide his attention between his cooking and a number of silk handkerchieves , which were hanging near the fire . |
| 7 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 8 | Lighter spirits such as vodka and white rum had become more popular , the report said , along with a growing array of speciality spirits and spirit-based drinks , all of which were eating into the whisky market . |
| 9 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 10 | The ideal framework for the study of early Anglo-Saxon society is provided by the kingdoms which were developing during the period under consideration . |
| 11 | During the reign of Charles I there was a great flood of emigrants to North America and the West Indies , and a third type of colony appeared in addition to the colonies for English settlement and the trading posts which needed political power to function effectively : the colonies which were emerging in the West Indies were beginning to turn into plantations in the modern sense in which Englishmen directed the labour of other people . |
| 12 | This is not just because the terms Whig and Tory were not to become current usage until the Exclusion Crisis , but because the political polarities which were emerging in the 1660s and 1670s — between Court and Country — did not predict the Whig–Tory split that was to emerge after the Popish Plot . |
| 13 | Two further problems confronted the manager : was the national curriculum up to the age of 16 going to feed sensibly through to new policies which were emerging from the combination of general and vocational education from 16 to 19 ? |
| 14 | Soviet writers raised the idea that the guarantor countries , which should include the USSR , the United States , and other states acceptable to both Afghanistan and its neighbours which were negotiating with the former , could adopt an obligation to observe the sovereignty , independence , territorial integrity and non-aligned status of Afghanistan . |
| 15 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 16 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 17 | It was held that property in the incomplete ship passed on payment of the first instalment but that no property passed at that time in some materials which were Lying in the ship yard and might be used in the ship 's construction . |
| 18 | He held her gaze , allowing his own eyes to drop to her breasts , which were pressing against the clinging material of her dress . |
| 19 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 20 | The tone here mocks both anthropology and the related theories of racial purity ( as seen in the work of Frobenius ) which were coming to the fore at that time . |
| 21 | The wisdom of the Northern Ireland Branch of introducing a Grade 4B a few years ago , is paying off now , when this grade attracted an entry of 21 bands , some of which were playing for the first time . |
| 22 | Which was smarting in the eye and she went to hospital to have her eye rinsed and all that . |
| 23 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 24 | She pointed to a huge mirror with an ornate surround which was leaning against the wall . |
| 25 | The book was never published in America , but I was still called to testify at the committee hearing of the US Senate which was looking into the fate of the missing US prisoners of war . |
| 26 | We know from archaeology that Birka was at the northern end of a flourishing trade route which was beginning in the 830s and 840s to bring in huge quantities of silver from the Muslim-controlled trade routes between Byzantium and China . |
| 27 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 28 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 29 | Everyone connected with The Championships , however , not least the world 's top players , know that Jim 's expertise and determination , steadily developed since he first began working with grass at Shepherd 's Bush Cricket Club in 1950 , before going on to spend 25 years at St George 's Hill , had more than silenced all the criticism which was developing about the state of the Wimbledon courts in the early 1980's . |
| 30 | Writing in the 1950s Mills came to the conclusion that the growth in military expenditure and the close relationship which was developing between the military , industry and the executive in America had led to the creation of a power elite . |