Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb -s] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
| 2 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 3 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 4 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 5 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 6 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 7 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 8 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 9 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 10 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 11 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 12 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 13 | He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away . |
| 14 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 15 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 16 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 17 | Two students face each other , one as the attacker , the other as the defender against an attack which he knows is coming . |
| 18 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 19 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 20 | The supermarket firm , Gateway , is taking legal action against a Northampton firm which it alleges is selling fire-damaged Gateway foods . |
| 21 | Moreover , the degree of fraud which it engenders is astounding . |
| 22 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 23 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 24 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 25 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 26 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 27 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 28 | The group aims to provide a kind of one-stop shop for standards and specifications in a buyer 's marketplace , which it believes is replacing the vendor-dominated open systems space of the last few years . |