Example sentences of "[Wh det] it have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 2 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 3 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 4 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 5 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 6 | Weir got out of commodity , or off-the-shelf , engineering goods , which it had been making almost since it was founded by the family in 1871 , seeing them as too sensitive to changes to domestic demand and expensive to produce compared with international competitors . |
| 7 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 8 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 9 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 10 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 11 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 12 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 13 | Then I remember what it 's been doing : nothing that they could see , because it 's hidden behind my beard . |
| 14 | When an animal is predictably going to continue to do what it has been doing , a signal is uninformative . |
| 15 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |