Example sentences of "[prep] which i [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 2 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 3 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 4 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |
| 7 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 8 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 9 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 10 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 11 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 12 | Between the two , so to speak , in the organizational and cultural space between them , or the Third Area , come the psychic and political relations to which I have been pointing . |
| 13 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |
| 14 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |