Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistake , which has been the central football in this tournament , may however be analysed in a way which is neither exclusively subjectivist nor exclusively objectivist by adopting the synthesist approach immanent in Gordon 's ‘ reasonable man as a test ’ . |
| 2 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 3 | It is important to appreciate that the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 only applies to a dwelling house which has been the matrimonial home ( s1(10) ) . |
| 4 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 5 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 6 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 7 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 8 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 9 | Albania , which had been the only European non-participant , had expressed its desire to join and was granted observer status at the summit , but on Nov. 20 lodged a formal complaint stating that " the failure of some states to allow a consensus for Albania 's full participation … is incomprehensible " [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ] . |
| 10 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 11 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 12 | By contrast Sofia , the capital , was the stronghold of the UDF , which comprised some 16 different parties or movements ranging from the environmental group Eco-Glasnost ( which had been the first to oppose the former communist regime — see p. 36980 ) to Podkrepa , the rapidly growing free trade union movement . |
| 13 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 14 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 15 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |
| 16 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 17 | The conference ( a triennial meeting scheduled between NAM summits ) took place in the context of the effective ending of the " Cold War " , the issue which had been the immediate stimulus for the original formation of the Non-aligned Movement in 1961 . |
| 18 | The dismantling of the Communist system , which had been the immediate priority of the new government elected in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , was followed by the framing of a new constitution regulating the relationship between the federal government and the two constituent republics . |
| 19 | Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection . |
| 20 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 21 | Later , as they strolled on neat walkways and over pretty Oriental stone bridges , Luke 's mood grew more relaxed , so Maria reintroduced the subject which had been the initial cause of their earlier conflict . |
| 22 | Manufacturing , which had been the leading sector in 1989 , was expected to be less significant in 1990 , with a world fall in demand for computer hardware . |
| 23 | The area to the south of Saville Street which had been the commercial centre for the port was already in a state of decay with banks , etc. moving north towards residential areas . |
| 24 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 25 | The Yemen Socialist Party ( Ali Salim al-Bid s. -g. ) , which had been the dominant political power in South Yemen prior to unification , remained a force in the unified Republic . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 27 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 28 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 29 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 30 | What has been the average wind component during the flight ? |