Example sentences of "a [noun] that have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 2 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 3 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 4 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 5 | It 's a ritual that 's been going on ever since the first detachment fom Lyneham came out here last December . |
| 6 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 7 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 8 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 9 | It 's a question that 's been bothering me . |
| 10 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 11 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 12 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 13 | A trap that has been expanding its grip steadily since the end of the Eighties . |
| 14 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 15 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 16 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 17 | For a band that has been performing for around a decade , their output is remarkably small , but perfectly formed . |
| 18 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 19 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 20 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 21 | The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office . |
| 22 | It 's a word that has been percolating in dance music for the past couple of years , a reminder that there was life before raves , gripping club culture by the scruff of its Joe Bloggs shirt , and shaking it until the penny drops . |
| 23 | They gave him a letter that had been waiting for his arrival . |
| 24 | A hotel that 's been flying the Union flag for more than sixty years has been told to get planning permission , or take it down . |
| 25 | A hinge that had been digging into his stomach freed itself . |
| 26 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 27 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 28 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 29 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |