Example sentences of "which have [adv] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvident Costa Rica , which has lately been trying to behave better , was not treated in May 1990 with the respect accorded to Venezuela . |
| 2 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 3 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 4 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |
| 5 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 6 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 7 | In the afternoon ‘ individual sweep ’ , the unbelievable happened when John Mathews ( again Stoddards ) playing off 12 , scored a net 63 and tamed this four hour round course which had fast been gaining a ‘ killer ’ reputation . |
| 8 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 9 | Moreover the fact that after 1713 no State in Western Europe was in a position to dominate the area , as France had done during much of the reign of Louis XIV , introduced into the politics of the period an element of flexibility which had previously been lacking . |
| 10 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |
| 11 | Some of the most surprising issues of contemporary Britain arise in areas like Cornwall or mid Wales , which had previously been suffering from the decline of population and employment . |
| 12 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 13 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 14 | The two power stations awarded licenses by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , are Richborough in Kent and Ince in Merseyside , which have both been burning the fuel on an experimental basis for the last three years . |
| 15 | It is a responsibility that has resulted in the revival of the importance of the data processing department — a shift not lost on Microsoft Corp , Lotus Development Corp and Borland International Inc which have all been attempting to play down their ‘ shrink wrapped ’ status with corporate licensing deals and the like . |
| 16 | This project is examining some of the longer term implications for housing consumers and housing policies of the important changes which have recently been taking place in the institutional framework of owner-occupied housing finance in Britain . |