Example sentences of "which have begun " in BNC.

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1 It is a war which has begun to embarrass the interveners .
2 As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking .
3 AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement .
4 Although the Spirit of the Lord has permeated the church through what is called ‘ charismatic renewal ’ , and although it is like leaven in a lump which has begun to spread its influence , there are still many parts of the church unreached and unaffected .
5 It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high .
6 Erasure and Cher are just two among the onslaught of Greatest Hits which has begun to assault us as marketing replaces music in the run-up to Christmas .
7 The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits .
8 Another very significant breakthrough has been made by Dr David Peacock with his studies of the minerals in the clay , and which has begun to uncover new , and in some cases , totally unexpected information on the distribution of pottery .
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10 The introduction of the card was part of the evolutionary process which has begun in 1850 when Wells and Fargo merged to form a company which transported valuables across America by Express delivery — thus American Express .
11 Apart from the UK , which has begun to deregulate the airline industry , all continental airlines pay workers substantially more than in the United States , even though countries like Spain and Portugal have much lower living standards in general .
12 The black metallic S curve of the elevated train shadowed the squalor of the lower east side which had begun to grow under it .
13 Later she dug about in the fridge ; and although the result was depressing , she did find and consume two pots of yoghurt , a hunk of cheese and a slice of ham which had begun to curl up at its edges .
14 But Lewis 's friends sensed , from this period onwards , something which had begun half as a tease hardening into an attitude .
15 When Jesus died , faith in his message died as well and his movement , which had begun with such promise , collapsed .
16 The strange affair , which had begun by seeming distant — a vague shape on the horizon — was now moving towards him , like the coiled spring ; taking the initiative , advancing on his safety , menacing him .
17 In autumn 1941 the German advance into Russia , which had begun so spectacularly , ground to halt on the approach to Moscow , and a disastrous retreat in the icy wastes of the Russian winter could only be staved off with difficulty and at high human cost , leaving an ill-equipped army to endure the arctic conditions .
18 Opinion in Catholic parts of the Reich in particular was greatly influenced by the new wave of attacks on the position of the Church which had begun in spring 1941 and gathered momentum during the summer and autumn .
19 The Times noted ‘ fruit trees which had begun to blossom after having long ceased ’ .
20 There is a dispute among historians about whether the Napoleonic episode , with its creation of an Italian state by name , was a benefit or a hindrance to the Italian nationalism which had begun to be voiced along with the cries of Viva Verdi .
21 From another it was simply teased out tragedy which had begun with the cruelly pragmatic strangulation of the Inca ( King ) Atahualpa in Cajamarca , followed by the systematic looting of the empire 's wealth and the suffering of its peoples till the Inca kingdom was reduced to the forest sanctuary of Vilcabamba .
22 As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end .
23 Both the security forces and the death squads have renewed their campaign of intimidation against trade unions and popular organizations which had begun to regroup and regain influence during the Duarte period .
24 This was to be the fourteenth staging of the Championships , which had begun ( without British participation ) in 1934 .
25 The poem with that title was one of four published under the pseudonym Sagitta in 1905 in the Berlin gay journal Der Eigene , which had begun in 1896 as an anarchist journal in the direction of Max Stirner ( reflected in the title : der Eigene equals self-owner , in the meaning given that word by Stirner ) , but from 1898 was openly homosexual .
26 To some extent , the wartime activism of the Colonial Office only reinforced a trend which had begun shortly before the war , when revelations of the poverty-stricken condition of Britain 's tropical empire , especially the West Indies , had forced the British government to take a more visible interest in colonial welfare .
27 A family line which had begun with a marriage of 1625 , seen good times and bad times , sent its bright young sons to London and married its daughters into many a Frome family was seeing here , in Sarah , its last torch-bearer .
28 She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia .
29 ‘ Come on , you daft buggers ! ’ he encouraged the cows which had begun to plod forward .
30 But his main preoccupation was with the unfinished Requiem , which had begun to prey on his mind .
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