Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone was amazed when she first did , interrupting the teacher with a series of incoherent stammers which seemed to insist on being articulated , against her will . |
| 2 | On Nov. 9 the government threatened to bring in troops to drive buses and to protect those vehicles which continued to operate from being stoned . |
| 3 | e.g. " The Liberal-Labour coalition , which had come into being around 1900 , was committed to the extension of democracy . " |
| 4 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 5 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 6 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 7 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 8 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 9 | In two waves , one in late 1859 , the other in early 1860 , representatives of the various provincial committees which had come into being as a result of the Nazimov Rescript came to St Petersburg to discuss their ideas with the Editing Commissions . |