Example sentences of "which have [verb] [prep] a [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 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the next level are classrooms for conductor-trainees , offices and a sitting/buffet area , which has to cope with an international mix of families , visitors , students , staff and conductors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | These areas have apparently acquired an enhanced vitrinite reflectance which has led to an apparent overestimate of uplift . |
| 13 | The Louvre 's spokeswoman Sylvie Poujade has recently commented that everyone at the Louvre is sick and tired of the affair , which has turned into a living nightmare . |
| 14 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |
| 15 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 16 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 17 | A FRENCH citizen living in Glasgow claims he has been ‘ given the runaround ’ by the Scottish legal system in his attempts to right a legal error which has resulted in a serious slur on his character . |
| 18 | This is because of Venus 's smaller distance from the Sun which has resulted in a runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 19 | A new system was also installed in the Vocational Qualifications ( VQs ) department which has resulted in a marked improvement in the turnaround of NQV certification . |
| 20 | However , behind the 30,000 sq ft of merchandising space , which will create 177 part-time and 16 full-time jobs , lies years of planning and a £7 million construction project which has resulted in an undeveloped site being turned into one of the country 's most up-to-date retail complexes . |
| 21 | They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union . |
| 22 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 23 | the rain which had threatened in a previous scene |
| 24 | The meeting was concerned with a new Australian peace plan which proposed a large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia and which had met with a favourable response at the UN Security Council during January and February . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 27 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 28 | This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |