Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |
| 2 | That is bound to affect employment , as shown by the number of business failures , which has risen in the past 12 months by 14,000 , and the number of mortgage repossessions , which has topped the 100,000 mark . |
| 3 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 4 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 5 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 6 | Q : Are we going to be able to regain the business which has declined in the Japanese market ? |
| 7 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 8 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 9 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the one existing example of convergence in Europe is the convergence of west Germany and east Germany , which has resulted in the highest inflation and interest rates that Germany has ever had , and which is costing Britain at least 1.5 per cent . |
| 11 | One of the biggest issues is likely to be the running down of the coal industry which has resulted in the recent closure of Dawdon and Murton collieries , near Seaham , with the loss of hundreds of jobs . |
| 12 | Engineers are often most concerned with the attainments of a high level or technical competence which has resulted in the gradual erosion of the general level of social awareness and perspective necessary for an engineer to serve his community usefully … |
| 13 | Some local authorities have taken action under s.100 of the Public Health Act 1936 which has resulted in the eventual closure of premises involved in the animal by-product industry . |
| 14 | British waterways launched a competition to find the family which has put in the most years of work in a dock . |
| 15 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
| 16 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
| 17 | That comparison is exagerrated by the enormous increase in world trade which has occurred in the post-war period , and which has largely by-passed the Eastern European countries . |
| 18 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 19 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 20 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 21 | If we are carrying out the valuation of a private company which intends to float in the foreseeable future it should be borne in mind that the flotation will make the shares marketable . |
| 22 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
| 23 | Atomisation is the keyword here and it is a tendency which gets reproduced in the very format of the finished product . |
| 24 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 25 | And yet , at the same time , central government has imposed the National Curriculum on the education system which seems to move in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 27 | The list developed for the study reported here ( Woll , 1983 ) contains in its full form 257 items , many of which do appear in the other lists . |
| 28 | He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table . |
| 29 | The more sceptical and critical attitude towards nationalism which appeared to develop in the postwar period , and the fresh attempts to create ( even within a limited area ) supranational organizations , or at the other end of the spectrum to revive local and regional communities , provided an opportunity to redirect the sense of belonging , at least to some extent , upon political units other than the nation state . |
| 30 | Not much enthusiasm was transferred in the migration to the UK and the enthusiasm which appeared to grow in the 1980s seems mainly due to the successes of young black players in the football league . |