Example sentences of "which [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 2 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 3 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 4 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 5 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 6 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 7 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 8 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |
| 9 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 10 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 11 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 17 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 18 | Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war . |
| 19 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |