Example sentences of "which have [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 2 | Recently , this full-length terracotta Madonna 127 cm high , was sent for conservation and the discovery that it was by the great sculptor Jacopo della Quercia was made , which has caused all the more excitement because it was completely unexpected . |
| 3 | The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation . |
| 4 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 5 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 6 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 7 | As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day . |
| 8 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 9 | The reform was designed to reduce the linguistic tensions in Belgium , which had brought down the previous Martens coalition in 1987 [ see pp. 34892 ; 35489 ] . |
| 10 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |