Example sentences of "[noun] which have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 2 | But it also has a violent side which has claimed several British victims in the past decade ( See graphic , right ) : |
| 3 | The school was very pleased to take part in a programme which has visited many local churches and schools in Radio Merseyside 's 25 years of broadcasting . |
| 4 | This study focuses on an area of research which has received little attention in the past , but which is now at the forefront of the thinking of the relevant military planners . |
| 5 | One area of driving research which has produced some serendipitous results bearing on drivers ’ memory in normal situations results from attempts to investigate drivers ’ perception of traffic signs ( e.g. Johansson & Backlund , 1970 ; Johansson & Rumar , 1966 ; Luoma , 1988 , 1991 ; MacDonald & Hoffmann , 1991 ; Milosevic & Gajic , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 7 | Anuchin ( 1973 ) in his view of theory in geography has noted the uncertainty which has characterized much of the geography 's growth and its attempts to become an established science when many scientists who were substantially geographers ( he cites V.V. Dokuchaev as an example ) have often preferred to give their activities another name and ( Anuchin , 1973 , p. 44 ) : |
| 8 | Formula funding , explained later in the chapter as the cornerstone of the new arrangements for resource distribution to schools , represents a way of rewarding schools which have attracted such consumers . |
| 9 | It is , to be sure , the element of sensibility which has attracted many of Hornblower 's readers but many more will remember with greater satisfaction the account of Hornblower 's stand against four French ships-of-war , in A Ship of the Line , in which professional skill , emotional introspection and moment-to-moment physical behaviour are unerringly matched . |
| 10 | In recent years there have been , regrettably , a number of major accidents involving large passenger transport aircraft which have attracted much public attention . |
| 11 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 12 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 13 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 14 | NEW YORK researchers are near to pinpointing the root cause of toxic-shock syndrome — a feverish , and often fatal condition which has struck many women using particular types of tampon . |
| 15 | She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident . |
| 16 | These criticisms often relate to the inevitable problems of producing standard forms of contract which have to suit all situations , and which are therefore never the perfect answer to any particular project . |
| 17 | One aspect of the contract which has provoked much discussion is the identification of specific activities which family doctors must undertake and the setting of targets for specific activities such as cervical smear testing . |
| 18 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 19 | Thus , a rapid review of conservation world-wide can be expected to provide evidence as to whether there exist programmes which have fulfilled these general objectives for substantial numbers of people ( say , at least , tens of thousands ) , without insisting on precise standards of measurement . |
| 20 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 21 | Principally , the ANC had asked for ( i ) the dismissal of the Law and Order and the Defence ministers ; ( ii ) decisive government action to halt violence in the townships ; and ( iii ) a ban on the carrying of the traditional weapons which Inkatha supporters allegedly used in township fights which had caused some 900 deaths since January , and approximately 10,000 deaths since September 1984 . |
| 22 | But it is the cinema which has blended all these different forms together to create potent and resonant imagery , a visual and aural imagery of powerful locomotives , billowing smoke , clattering rails , and melancholy train whistles , allied to the ideal dramatic potential of a mixed group of passengers thrown together by circumstance for the duration of the journey . |
| 23 | The world has not seen more than once or twice in all the course of history a literature which has exercised such prodigious influence over the minds of men , over every cast and shade of intellect , as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762 . |
| 24 | These two trends help to explain how cost and price advantages have resulted in the remarkable increase in exports which has produced such an enormous foreign trade surplus . |
| 25 | Her action has again raised the issues of lack of sponsorship and reduced prize money which have preoccupied many leading players . |
| 26 | Her action has again raised the issues of lack of sponsorship and reduced prize money which have preoccupied many leading players . |
| 27 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 28 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 29 | These were the groups which had suffered most from the dislocations of the war , and an element of class antagonism can perhaps be detected in their hatred of wealthy Whig financiers and rich local Dissenters ( especially the Presbyterians ) . |
| 30 | That is why so many of them admire our system of carefully designed checks and balances which has served this nation so well . |