Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product .
7 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 .
8 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 ] .
9 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 .
10 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 ] .
11 Producer countries wanted to renegotiate the INRA to increase the minimum defended price for rubber to a level above the average production cost , and to allow more active intervention by INRO 's buffer stock manager to support prices , which had sunk to a five-year low by January 1992 .
12 Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution .
13 Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline .
14 Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians .
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