Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
| 2 | That is bound to affect employment , as shown by the number of business failures , which has risen in the past 12 months by 14,000 , and the number of mortgage repossessions , which has topped the 100,000 mark . |
| 3 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 4 | Sexual maturity is reached in the female at the time of first menstruation — the discharge via the vagina of the unfertilised egg and of a lining which has grown in the uterus during the egg 's development . |
| 5 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 6 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 7 | Q : Are we going to be able to regain the business which has declined in the Japanese market ? |
| 8 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 9 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 10 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 11 | The main types of case appropriate for the application of the Practice Statement appear to be those which will rectify some uncertainty which has arisen in the case law or which are outmoded or unjust in relation to some broad issue of principle . |
| 12 | This is a reference under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 , which permits Her Majesty 's Attorney-General , when a person tried on indictment has been acquitted , to seek the opinion of this court on a point of law which has arisen in the case . |
| 13 | In St Cuthbert 's monthly newsletter he says : ‘ I believe this is the most critical situation which has arisen in the parish during my time here . |
| 14 | SureStyle Windows , which has called in the receivers , hit the headlines after revelations about the hard-sell tactics of its NorthEast sales staff . |
| 15 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 16 | Oscar Wilde … is celebrated in a new musical which has opened in the city . |
| 17 | All that vast enlargement of educational opportunity which has happened in the century since then and continues to accelerate has not robbed their vision of its truth nor their example of its value . |
| 18 | More spending on fundamental research , which has stagnated in the defence budget for a number of years , was announced . |
| 19 | A number of sub-committees were set up to put into effect the directions of the Poor Law Commissioner and at a meeting on 23rd September l835 , it was found administratively convenient to group the parishes into Northern and Southern districts , an arrangement which has persisted in the health service in Bedfordshire in various forms for the same reason up to the present day . |
| 20 | Engineers are often most concerned with the attainments of a high level or technical competence which has resulted in the gradual erosion of the general level of social awareness and perspective necessary for an engineer to serve his community usefully … |
| 21 | Some local authorities have taken action under s.100 of the Public Health Act 1936 which has resulted in the eventual closure of premises involved in the animal by-product industry . |
| 22 | Hence a hotelier may not , in a case which has resulted in the death of or personal injury to a lawful visitor due to the hotelier 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , rely upon a notice or clause which purports to exclude liability for such injury . |
| 23 | This is an attack on speculative urban development , which has resulted in the disappearance of the open spaces where working-class children used to play . |
| 24 | I should point out to him that , thanks to the generosity of the Sainsbury brothers , which has resulted in the building of the new wing of the national gallery , all the permanent collection of the national gallery is now on display to an ever-increasing part of the British public . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the one existing example of convergence in Europe is the convergence of west Germany and east Germany , which has resulted in the highest inflation and interest rates that Germany has ever had , and which is costing Britain at least 1.5 per cent . |
| 26 | Speaking in a Johannesburg synagogue on Sept. 14 , Mandela said : " On the eve of real negotiations , forces determined to wreck the peace process have implemented a strategy of destabilization which has resulted in the very real and terrifying prospect of full-scale civil war breaking out . " |
| 27 | Over the year considerable cooperative effort has been made by members of the PSC , the Inns and the CLE which has resulted in the development of a fair and equitable selection scheme . |
| 28 | Three British scientists have confirmed the extent of devastation which has resulted in the shrinking of the Aral Sea in the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Inserted during the committee stage of the bill , the protection amendment proposes that farmers be paid to preserve , rather than remove , hedgerows — reversing a trend which has resulted in the uprooting of 100,000 miles of hedges since 1945 . |
| 30 | One of the biggest issues is likely to be the running down of the coal industry which has resulted in the recent closure of Dawdon and Murton collieries , near Seaham , with the loss of hundreds of jobs . |