Example sentences of "which have [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 2 | ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television . |
| 3 | For example there are echoes of colonial discourse in the way the boys make a distinction between the ‘ good blacks ’ ( who accept the verdict of the first , lost fight ) and the ‘ bad blacks ’ who cry foul and fight back , trying to reverse the verdict of a society which has made them permanent losers . |
| 4 | Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years . |
| 5 | It is this all important human love between parent and child , particularly the mother , that could well be the origin of the power which has made it possible for there to be established within the human mind this thing we call a ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 6 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 7 | Congratulations , it is with immense gratitude that I am saying this ; I am fully aware of the dedication , the hard work ingenuity and imagination which has made it possible to celebrate a 40th Anniversary of the Medau Society . |
| 8 | He feels the nomadic lifestyle contributed to a shyness which has made it difficult for him to establish close friendships ever since . |
| 9 | Their growth is partly a response to the falling numbers of secondary pupils , which has made it difficult for many smaller schools to make up viable sixth form classes in less-popular A level subjects . |
| 10 | Parents and doctors want to switch off the system which has kept him alive since the 1989 , but fear the legal implications . |
| 11 | I HAVE just read an article — not in the Mirror I 'm glad to say — which has left me speechless with rage . |
| 12 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
| 13 | Take our lips and speak through them , take our lives and purify them , so that we too may be faithful witnesses to the truth which has set us free . |
| 14 | Goldfish have the remarkable ability to survive conditions which would have seen most other fish off long ago — a fact which has laid them open to much abuse . |
| 15 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 16 | Horbury was on drugs for high-blood pressure which had made him impotent and claims his wife admitted adultery , Mr Rees said . |
| 17 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 18 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 19 | Benjamin often expressed regret at the passing of ‘ traditional ’ art and the social ties and functions which had made it possible . |
| 20 | This Britain had done and she should not be dismayed at their majority , but be proud of it , and of the imperialism which had made it possible " . |
| 21 | They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive . |
| 22 | Which had made it difficult for her to stifle her irreverent giggles , particularly with Matey 's severe stare on her . |
| 23 | Mandarin was eleven but showed no signs of losing the powers which had brought him numerous victories , including two in the King George VI Chase . |
| 24 | ( Rebel sources reported that he had fled to the southern port of Kismayu , with the aim of entering Kenya , which had promised him safe conduct . |
| 25 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 26 | Neil was ready to knock Blaine down , had come out of the trance which had held him silent under Havvie 's insults to the girl he loved — but he saw Sally-Anne 's face , and read there only guilt , not the shame which gripped her . |
| 27 | ( Like many new proteins this has been discovered by different groups , which have given it different names . ) |
| 28 | Personally , I get the greatest kick out of succeeding with those species which have caused me real problems like Aspidoras lakoi . |
| 29 | But just as the invention of print prepared the way for the traditional novel ( Watt 1957:196–200 , Couturier 1991:93–144 ) , so the fictions characters produce in Verbivore are conditioned by the technological advances which have made them possible . |
| 30 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |