Example sentences of "which [was/were] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 2 | Once the industrial and social changes which were transforming the West during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries began to find military expression , of course , the limits of Russia 's resources would be fully exposed . |
| 3 | Fortunately , however , they knew enough about Dawn 's condition to question the neurosurgeon closely when he described how Dawn would be fully conscious throughout the operation so that he could identify the damaged brain cells which were causing the spasticity , in order to destroy them . |
| 4 | In fact it was the sediment particles attached to the shells which were producing the TL . |
| 5 | By 1968 , the TUC and the Labour Party conference overwhelmingly opposed the government 's wages policy and , ironically for the government , this policy was helping to provoke strikes which were damaging the balance of payments . |
| 6 | In front of the television cameras which were transmitting the game live , the two hookers , Bègles ' Moscato and Mallaret of Montferrand , tried to strangle each other . |
| 7 | To accomplish his Labours and Deeds , Hercules was obliged to travel to far-off places to destroy ferocious creatures which were ravaging the countryside and creating terror among the inhabitants , such as the Lernaean Hydra and the sea monster , to which a Trojan damsel had to be annually supplied . |
| 8 | However , the reports on morale and popular opinion which were reaching the regime 's leaders painted a different picture . |
| 9 | This aspect of the decree was criticized by two opposition groups — the National Movement of the Chadian Renovators and the Rally for Democracy and Progress — which were demanding the convening of a multiparty national conference before the scheduled date of May 1992 . |
| 10 | I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service . |
| 11 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 12 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 13 | Challenge headed north towards the fishing vessels off Burwick Holm , which were illuminating the island with their searchlights , in heavy and near-continuous rain squalls and only one-mile visibility . |
| 14 | ‘ Is … is this a sudden decision , Mr Calder ? ’ she asked , looking down at her hands , which were folding the paper into a crumpled little heap . |
| 15 | There were , of course , other forces at work which were driving the subject peoples to oppose their alien overlords . |
| 16 | On the contrary , none of the nations wanted war , and ‘ ever new progressive and democratic forces ’ had appeared in the capitalist countries which were strengthening the common struggle for peace . |
| 17 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 18 | Attracted by the prospect of work during industrial expansion they migrated in their tens of thousands from the environs of East London and the eastern counties , both of which were suffering the effects of economic recession . |
| 19 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 20 | Few could resist pressures which were making the waging of war , never cheap , more expensive than ever before . |
| 21 | There were no hard-porn videos available on the activities of The Fox at the time this new offender was committing his offence , only the soft-porn reporting of the popular newspapers , which were describing the atrocities with such vivid detail as they occurred . |
| 22 | They 've pushed back the boundaries which were limiting the business . |
| 23 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 24 | A small crowd had gathered round , buzzing with the excitement which was breaking the dull monotony of the day . |
| 25 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 26 | In 1986 the leader of the Labour Party , Neil Kinnock , telephoned Malcolm Turnbull , the lawyer representing Peter Wright during the Spycatcher trial in Australia which was causing the British government and the security services endless embarrassment . |
| 27 | He knew anyway what John was doing , which was setting the fuse . |
| 28 | The first problem was not simply a lack of data : indeed , for two years , the EPA , which was funding the programme , could not decide where to start . |
| 29 | In 1979 the Conservative Government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle the problem of excessive Union powers which was destroying the employment and the livelihood of thousands of people every week . |
| 30 | Neither Polybius nor Posidonius shows any interest in the rise of a literature in the Latin language which was rivalling the Greek . |