Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Heathrow , which has implemented some controls , is avoided by traders who realise that a stop over could result in a costly hold up and even prosecution .
2 Beyond the basics of walking and climbing , lessons are now also available on how to use an ice axe to halt a slide on ice and snow — a skill which has saved many lives in the past .
3 There 's been a recent H M Is report , which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they 're certainly not against it , or the H M Is are certainly not against mixed ability teaching .
4 There has been a recent H M I report which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they are certainly not against it , or the H M I is certainly not against mixed ability teaching .
5 The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists .
6 That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's .
7 And so it is possible in these few words to dismiss a controversy which has absorbed many pages .
8 It is this partnership of complementary skills and knowledge , which has made these results possible and on your behalf I extend our thanks to our employees throughout the company .
9 And what difference will it make to a government which has made more U-turns than a snake ? ’
10 It is the particular way in which its doctrines have been expressed through concrete imagery which has shaped those doctrines .
11 It is the replacement of this differentiation of state and society by a more complex web of interrelated systems which has led many lawyers to seek alternatives to positivist approaches which in many cases rely on the liberal model of parliamentary democracy as their underlying assumption .
12 The third was the unfortunate linking of the work of tribunals and enquiries in the Report of the Franks Committee , which has led many writers to feel obliged to discuss tribunals and enquiries together .
13 It is this which has led some commentators to believe that the Eurocurrency market could create inflation within the US economy should large sums of Eurodollars be spent in the US by transformation , as it were , into domestic dollars .
14 Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed .
15 ‘ Fighting talk ’ stakes its claim to credibility through the narrative conventions of autobiographical realism ; the continual citation of ‘ first hand ’ experience conveys an implicit message that it is their encounter with black people which has led these boys to adopt racist arguments and not any external ideological influence .
16 NEW YORK researchers are near to pinpointing the root cause of toxic-shock syndrome — a feverish , and often fatal condition which has struck many women using particular types of tampon .
17 But doctors did n't anticipate another strain of the virus which has affected many children .
18 But more disturbing that either of these has been an increase in the rate of inflation which has affected all countries and which continues to remain high in many .
19 Another significant factor has been the instrumental ‘ explosion ’ which has affected all schools during the last forty years .
20 However , the decline in the Tokyo stock market , which has rendered many warrants worthless , may seriously damage the market .
21 He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers .
22 The report says that the company 's failure is " due quite simply to the overvaluation of the project , which has allowed some vultures to enrich themselves immeasurably at Congo 's expense . "
23 His Vin de Pays des Cotes de Gascogne , which has won many awards over recent years , is dry and fragrant , with plenty of fruit and well-balanced acidity .
24 ‘ However , ’ says David Baldock of the Institute for European Environment Policy , which has advised several governments on the issue , ‘ in twenty years ’ time five million people could be drinking water well over the 50 mg/litre limit .
25 A position which has angered many unionists at grass roots level .
26 It could hardly be more festive in its colour and tunefulness , and brings one passage which has prompted more comments than any other .
27 Marx concluded that the purely abstract philosophical debates which had characterized such discussions , in Germany , at least , were fruitless .
28 She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws .
29 There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken .
30 The major task tonight was congratulating three dogs which had outshone all others during the year in areas of saving lives , devotion to duty and pet of the year .
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