Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [vb pp] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Reference has been made to economic and monetary union , which have played a role in the discussions .
2 In a number of cases since the 1960s , which have involved a variety of circumstances ( demonstrations , deportations and publications ) , judges in the United Kingdom have refused to accept that ‘ national security ’ can mean anything other than what the government of the day says it means .
3 They buy unleaded petrol , they buy aerosol sprays which do not contain damaging propellants and they boycott shops selling beef products which have involved the destruction of South American rainforests .
4 The loss of competitive edge might open up demands for protective measures against countries which have imposed no limitations on their own industries .
5 Therefore , very large firms which have secured a degree of market dominance will often prefer independence or , where they do retain formal employers ' association membership , may have ‘ nonconforming ’ status whereby they are not required to follow the terms of a national agreement and disputes procedure ( such as a number of firms in the Chemical Industries Association in Britain , including ICI and Glaxo ) .
6 That governments must govern is recognised throughout the Convention and its protocols ( which have extended the scope of the Convention into areas such as education and property rights ) .
7 This observation leads the team to suggest that quasar activity may have been triggered by galaxy-galaxy interactions which have stimulated a flow of material onto the nucleus of the larger galaxy , possibly the site of a black hole ( Astronomical Journal , vols 7 , p 1621 ) .
8 Education and its management can learn lessons not only from the examples of individual industries but also from the movements which have stimulated the evolution of quality circles ( Nissan ) , employee involvement ( Ford ) and participative management .
9 But they have ruled out immediate legislation to ban the gadgets , which have flooded the market from the Far East and America .
10 It may seem a little curious that these are the problems which have exercised the minds of so many of the writers on Mary Queen of Scots above all else .
11 The twentieth century has seen the growth of new technologies and of the power of organised professions , which have assisted the expansion of the role of the referee from valuer to expert .
12 Off the field problems which have bedevilled the club in recent times have been buried .
13 This policy is limited , however , in two crucial ways : first , that such ‘ choice ’ in effect reduces to the ability to pay , and ability to pay has been profoundly affected by other policies which have increased the differences among groups with regard to income and wealth ; and secondly , that many public services must be provided in the local area if they are to be of real value and if other costs , not only financial , are not to be incurred , for instance , in travelling or moving residence in order to receive them .
14 Replying to these criticisms ( which have raised the possibility of an elaborate forgery ) in the newspaper El Pais , the Spanish pre-historian Antonio Beltran noted that although he had not previously been aware of depictions of penguins , rare animals such as snow hares and seals were found in cave paintings .
15 In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them .
16 A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form .
17 Who is constantly arguing for proper scientific evaluation of all the interventions which have become a matter of habit with many midwives and obstetricians , like artificial membrane rupture ?
18 It would not be compatible with the duty of the Secretaries of State to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales ’ , or with their accountability to Parliament , to abdicate from leadership on educational issues which have become a matter of lively public concern .
19 These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed .
20 ‘ We hope that our meeting with tourists and holidaymakers in our country may be an opportunity to demonstrate the honesty of the Lebanese people , their hospitality , freedom , security and stability which have become an example to others . ’
21 There would clearly be great value in building further networks of local education authorities and teacher training institutions which have expressed an interest in particular languages , and which are prepared to exchange some of their insights and resources .
22 Discussions are understood to be under way with several companies which have expressed an interest in setting up alongside the plant to supply components to Motorola , which operates on a just-in-time principle of bringing in materials just as they are required for the production process .
23 In particular , it will look at long-term changes which have affected the structure of jobs available to young people .
24 The changes in procedure and political alignment which have affected the operation of and attitudes towards , ‘ the block vote ’ — seeking to explain the causes and consequences of new developments .
25 This project is intended to increase our understanding of the factors which have affected the growth in employment and output of the largest British and foreign-owned professional producer service firms .
26 The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century .
27 Where this has occurred , there is often a variety of causes , but most are associated with the effects of development policies which have over-emphasised the importance of private vehicular transport .
28 However , some sites which have received the software under this deal have not requested any data , which suggests that they do not have the resources to run a properly supported 1991 Census data service .
29 But it is also helpful to see how such principles have been put into operation , and for this reason we look now at a discussion of two large urban sociolinguistic research projects , in Philadelphia and Belfast , which have utilized a range of different methods to attain different types of goal .
30 His proposals would have prevented the political indifference and the civil service 's lack of interest , noted earlier , which have blighted the development of mental health services .
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