Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There were also smiles at Colmore Row Branch which stands to earn about £15,000 commission for introducing Royal Scottish to Hills , one of its corporate customers . |
2 | All levels of government should privatise services to reduce the public sector 's share of GDP , which has crept over 50% . |
3 | The jobless figure , which has hit nearly 2.8m , should soon be tailing off . |
4 | In addition , greater life-expectancy , for which better health care is partly responsible , has resulted in a greater number of old people , which has created further demands on the NHS . |
5 | Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet . |
6 | A SPIN-OFF from the Teesside Women 's Cancer Prevention Unit appeal , which has raised over £ 5m in four years , became £500 richer yesterday thanks to staff at the Royal Mail sorting office in Middlesbrough . |
7 | The association , which has raised over $1 million towards the restoration of French and American buildings and other monuments , has this year awarded its main prize to the restorers of the château de Clairvaux in the Vienne region of France . |
8 | This was partly the result of a gift of £1 million from the Emir of Kuwait , along with a rise in the number of visitors which has generated around £.5 million . |
9 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
10 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
11 | There was no opposition to the completion of the merger from Havas , the French media group with a controlling stake in the Groupe de la Cité , which has held over 3% of Hachette 's share since it launched a ‘ mini-raid ’ on the Paris Bourse last October . |
12 | The future of the Lawrence Challenge Trophy , awarded to the scorer of the season 's fastest century , was assured when the company which has taken over Walter Lawrence & Co. returned the trophy to the Lawrence family . |
13 | By far the biggest single item is newspaper , which has taken around 18% of landfill volume for 30 years . |
14 | The 140-acre park — which has taken about £2.2 billion and four years to build — will be open from 9am to midnight every day of the year . |
15 | INSURER Norwich Union , which has provided about £200m in guarantees for members of Lloyd 's of London , is having to pay as Lloyd 's draws down the funds of members on loss-making syndicates . |
16 | However the latest development is sure to create new storms within the troubled Labour party in the area , where divisions are still deep over the so-called ‘ Monklands Mafia ’ affair which has brought out claims not only of jobs favouritism but accusations of sectarianism and abuse of power . |
17 | The latest development is sure to create storms within the troubled Labour party in the area , where divisions are still deep over the so-called Monklands Mafia affair which has brought out claims not only of jobs favouritism but accusations of sectarianism and abuse of power . |
18 | PC Pick is one of the organisers of the Newcastle Police Aid to Romanian Children charity , which has delivered about £4m worth of supplies to the troubled country in the past two years . |
19 | She is full of praise for the invaluable public library system which has come up trumps in most of her researches . |
20 | As part of our commitment to a quality service to patients , we will end compulsory competitive tendering for hospital support services , which has driven down standards of cleanliness and catering . |
21 | Until recently the all-male tradition of cathedral choirs has continued unaltered , with the exception of St. Mary 's Cathedral in Edinburgh , which has had both girls and boys in its choir . |
22 | According to documents leaked to a newspaper , the French Secret Service has been monitoring the Soka Gakkai Buddhist group which has set up bases near to nuclear reactors and research centres . |
23 | The size of the basic Umwelt ( environment ) model has been increased to 1.9 litres , which has put up power output from 60 to 75 bhp . |
24 | According to the magazine , which has published only artist 's impressions of the pictures , it was Fergie 's discovery of the photos that ended the Yorks ' marriage and sent her into Bryan 's arms . |
25 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
26 | Langue , not parole must be the primary object of a science which aims to show how language functions . |
27 | Like the subcontracting system , group affiliation provides an important adjustment cushion which helps to explain why keiretsu profits are much less variable , if not necessarily higher , than other firms . |
28 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
29 | Similarly , when a peacock butterfly opens and then suddenly closes its wings , it generates a sonic clap outside human hearing which helps to scare away predators . |
30 | Here , he also contends that ‘ we have no theory of professional learning on the job which seeks to explain how teachers learn from classroom experience , how they learn from colleagues , or how they learn from people and publications outside the school ’ . |