Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the items saved was a portrait of Lord Liverpool by Sir Thomas Lawrence , which did not appear in the catalogue and which has gone to the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 2 | The problem of childcare is aggravated by the high divorce rate ( over 60% in Moscow and 33% elsewhere ) which has led to a large number of single parent families . |
| 3 | An employee package has been developed which has led to a large proportion of the authority 's employees being paid by automated direct credit through BACS . |
| 4 | Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’ |
| 5 | He has been one of the very few Serbs to have the courage to speak out against the kind of fanatical Serbian nationalism which has led to the present war . |
| 6 | We will establish a new independent transport safety inspectorate within the health and safety legislation to improve the safety environment which has led to the terrible tragedies of recent years . |
| 7 | It is such loose , flaccid and irresponsible thinking which has led to the widespread use of the offensive term ’ joyriding ’ . |
| 8 | It is to be hoped that the interest in these patients , which has led to an impressive research effort and also the establishment of specialized clinical services , will continue despite the major economic strictures which now face the Health Service . |
| 9 | Is it fear of fictional artificiality or a puritanical distrust of pure pleasure which has led to an increasing relegation to the status of ‘ popular ’ and , by implication , ‘ inferior ’ literature of a genre which has myth and legend as its ancestors ? |
| 10 | These areas have apparently acquired an enhanced vitrinite reflectance which has led to an apparent overestimate of uplift . |
| 11 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 12 | In other words , an English bonanza which has contributed to the tragic decline of the salmon in so many Scottish rivers — and to the consequent decline in your economy — is to be allowed to wreak further , and possibly terminal , damage . |
| 13 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
| 14 | In general , the market I hope to target will be tomorrow 's market which has shrunk to the healthier structures of the early 1980s . |
| 15 | Thus in Europe , the mystical Kabbalism of Isaac Luria ( d. 1572 ) had a deep and enduring influence on the thought and spirituality of Jews which has persisted to the present day , even though it may seem far in spirit from the Talmud . |
| 16 | It is this ‘ reductionism ’ , this disavowal of complexity for the sake of pursuing moral certainties or political ideals , which has lead to the present crisis of antiracist education . |
| 17 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |
| 18 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 19 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 20 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 21 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 22 | Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product . |
| 23 | The persistent importance of the group , which had led to a strong sense of communal identity since the Tokugawa period , could also produce schism within society . |
| 24 | The legislation followed the 1987 world stock market crash which had led to a controversial four-day closure of the Hong Kong stock exchange and the subsequent arrest of a number of officials on corruption charges [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ; and below ] . |
| 25 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 26 | A general rise in crime had also been reported since the beginning of the year , following an amnesty which had led to a large number of convicted offenders being released from prison [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 27 | India 's deteriorating foreign exchange situation had forced the government to adopt drastic import curbs in March [ see p. 38151 ] , which had led to an immediate reduction in the import of manufacturing components and metals . |
| 28 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 29 | It was the war which had led to the great increase in government patronage and hence also the potential for Court influence , and this was by and large a Whig war . |
| 30 | They were panicking as it was their lack of observation which had led to the two getting away unseen . |