Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Attention has also focused on British merger policy which has operated in a self-regulatory framework , rather than a statutory one . |
2 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
5 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
6 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
7 | There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS . |
8 | Also new is the requirement that a private company which has elected under the substituted section 252 to dispense with the laying of accounts before a general meeting or , under section 366A , to dispense with the holding of annual general meetings , must so state in the return . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
12 | Q : Are we going to be able to regain the business which has declined in the Japanese market ? |
13 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
14 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
15 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
16 | It 's a story which has danced across the back pages of our newspapers for weeks . |
17 | A similar lane design is apparent in the short section of curving roadway which has survived at the Minoan village of Tylissos , just to the west of House C ( Figure 13 and Plate 13 ) . |
18 | Even conceding that the drugs trade generates large flows of cash , the idea that the Mafia is a single , stable organisation which has survived for the past 50 years largely intact is plainly wrong . |
19 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
20 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
21 | Reference to training inevitably raises questions about the role of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) which has emerged as the major institutional vehicle for government schemes to cope with unemployment . |
22 | To do this , however , we need to alter fundamentally the ghetto mentality which has emerged amongst the computer-literate members of our profession and seek collaboration with other humanities scholars . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It is such loose , flaccid and irresponsible thinking which has led to the widespread use of the offensive term ’ joyriding ’ . |