Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ( 1981 , p. 190 ) observes the ‘ suppression of voice in pornographic cinema , a phenomenon which has extended to commercial cinema in general , in which voice is increasingly ‘ a support for a certain visible presence of the body ’ . |
| 2 | Part of the impetus has come from the intrinsic interest of the mathematics itself , which has led to major advances in such fields as algebra , analysis , number theory , geometry and topology . |
| 3 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 4 | A picture emerges of declining Government support of a previously nationalised industry under privatisation which has led to intense pressure to reduce overheads and manpower with steadily deteriorating safety standards . |
| 5 | It is the delay which has led to growing fears that the leukaemia unit will never match the fund raisers ’ hopes . |
| 6 | The quality of groundwater can be affected by farming practices such as intensive agriculture , which has led to widespread increases in nitrate concentrations in groundwater . |
| 7 | This can affect people 's willingness to report certain crimes , which has contributed to recent increases in the official statistics for racial attacks , domestic violence , and child abuse . |
| 8 | The £2 million costs are being found by the museum itself , together with Strathclyde Regional Council and the Fondation Mécénat which has looked to private sponsorship . |
| 9 | It created a factory system which has spread to other industries . |
| 10 | It is important that the category of children with moderate learning difficulties , which has escalated to frightening proportions , is not replaced with a new category of disruptive pupils . |
| 11 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 12 | It was machinery which had led to increased efficiency and output . |
| 13 | The US , by far the world 's wealthiest and most powerful state , also hoped for a stable , expanding world economy where freer trade would prevent a return to the depression and unemployment which had led to militant nationalism in the 1930s . |
| 14 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |
| 15 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 16 | It means helping counsellees to become aware of repeating patterns of relationships which have led to unhappy situations throughout their lives and recognizing the part they themselves play in bringing about these recurring patterns . |
| 17 | Proposed reforms to the French port system , which have led to one-day strikes by dockers almost every week , are to be continued , the prime minister said . |
| 18 | Conservative economic policy ironically has created social conditions which have led to increased crime amongst the middle as well as working classes . |
| 19 | The purpose of the seminar was to consider problems of agricultural structure and education which have led to economic stagnation and decline in many of Europe 's marginal areas . |
| 20 | OFFICE equipment manufacturers have been criticised by Britain 's secretaries and office staff for badly-designed desks , tables , chairs and other items which have led to expensive clothing being ruined . |
| 21 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has just raised $110m in convertible subordinated debentures which have received a B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which revised the company 's ratings outlook to positive from stable , noting DSC 's improving cash flows , which have led to improved debt to equity rations . |
| 22 | One set of models suggests that MCCs represent crustal-scale blocks bounded by originally high-angle normal faults which have tilted to subhorizontal attitudes . |
| 23 | One line shows what has happened to personal wealth divided by personal income : if wealth merely rose in line with incomes ( which would be represented by a flat wealth line on the graph ) , the theory would suggest that it would not have any independent influence on savings . |
| 24 | Before dealing with this , it is necessary to document what has happened to industrial land and shopping , two issues not linked at all in the Structure Plan but very much interrelated in subsequent developments . |
| 25 | The present Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge , Revd Don Cupitt , concluded in his Sea of Faith TV series ( and book ) that these two thinkers must represent what has happened to religious thinking in the last 100 years . |
| 26 | Let us look at what has happened to other utilities in Great Britain that were fixed by the Government before they broke down . |
| 27 | But to rely on the decline of pre-war forms of working-class life and the rise in consumerism as a political explanation for what has happened to working-class loyalties is the narrowest kind of mythic reconstruction . |
| 28 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 29 | It 's personal because when I heard what had happened to young Leakey , I lost my rag . |
| 30 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |