Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sarah had become aware of her looks , which were improving daily , and she began using them to her advantage . |
| 32 | Radical rhetoric can disguise essential continuities in policy or simply provide a post hoc gloss to changes which were happening anyway . |
| 33 | As the oil-related traffic quietened down we turned our attentions to the Klondyke fishing industry in the northwest which was picking up dramatically . |
| 34 | Autocracy appeared the very linchpin of everything that offended a small but intellectually dynamic intelligentsia which was breaking away from the traditional values of the nobility . |
| 35 | Whether tax was covered by the review or not , there were still decisions to be taken on such fundamental issues as the future of the pensions system , support for low-income families , and the special payments system which was breaking down . |
| 36 | Even along this road , however , many of the old ‘ guilds ’ had become , in effect , the organizations of employing ‘ masters ’ — the craft status shifted to the economic status — and these were themselves in complex relations with the development of capitalist trade , which was breaking down the kind of autonomy from which the guilds , new and old , had derived their monopoly . |
| 37 | It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow . |
| 38 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 39 | Suddenly , everyone was talking about Syria and Iran — which country had more power over the hostage-takers , which was leaning more to the West . |
| 40 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 41 | Marx had welcomed the industrialization and urbanization which was transforming traditionally agricultural Europe in his lifetime . |
| 42 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 43 | When he saw this er Iraqi cargo ship which was moving up er from er the bottom of the Red Sea , and moving towards er Iraq as we believed , er and so arrangements were made to erm enforce the United Nations embargo . |
| 44 | It was as if he has caught an infection which was moving around all men but as yet lighting on few , something which would grow to cause fever where there had been force . |
| 45 | For the BBC , the Pilkington inquiry had been a vindication and a triumph , confirming the superiority of its own service over the commercial values of ITV , which was moving rapidly into surplus . |
| 46 | One Cabinet minister , a member of the Economic Strategy Committee but not of this most secret inner group , which was meeting straight afterwards , was a bit slow to gather his papers . |
| 47 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 48 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 49 | Her short blonde hair whipping round her face in the breeze , Ronni turned back to fix her eyes on the jetty , which was drawing ever closer as Jeff 's motor boat approached it , and focused with growing interest on the imposing tall , dark figure who stood there in the bright Sardinian sunshine . |
| 50 | Suddenly I remembered my weekly shower and hurried to join the ragged party which was forming outside . |
| 51 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 52 | The Conservative government in Britain in 1990 still gave priority to fighting inflation , which was rising more steeply than in its commercial competitors . |
| 53 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 54 | The meagre returns from tillage stimulated the conversion of arable land to pasture for sheep , which was proceeding actively in the early decades of the century . |
| 55 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 56 | Those small producers who were so intimidated by the problems of securing significant distribution that they simply carried on producing small , cheap pictures which , according to Hepworth , ‘ helped to build up and succour the very evil which was bringing about their downfall ’ , inevitably went under first . |
| 57 | She was wearing a fringed dark purple midi-skirt and a pink muslin shirt from the early seventies , which had tiny mirrors sewn into it , and which was clinging unashamedly to her breasts . |
| 58 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 59 | She swivelled primly — she was n't one of nature 's barmaids — and held up the change just past my face , which was boiling now , as she saw . |
| 60 | Edward was kitted up and ready to go , and Benson went with him to the car , which was ticking over outside the control tower . |