Example sentences of "which have [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies .
2 Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country .
3 These findings are replicated by the recent local crime surveys , notably those in Merseyside and Islington , which have constituted the empirical core of the ‘ New Left realism ’ in criminology ( Kinsey , 1985 ; Jones et al . ,
4 This failure is well illustrated , I think , by the outlook and policies of trade unions , which have constituted the organized mass basis of all socialist movements , but which now seem to have , at least in some countries , a more tenuous connection with socialism .
5 PROPOSALS to restrict late-night drinking in Edinburgh which have split the ruling Labour group have won the full support of emergency staff at the capital 's central casualty hospital .
6 If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors .
7 The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future .
8 The new President of the Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , has written , ‘ it is essentially political factors which have pushed the German government to promote Economic and Monetary Union .
9 The Discovery is Land-Rover 's challenge to the Mitsubishi Shogun , Isuzu Trooper and Daihatsu Fourtrak , which have hit the British firm hard in the burgeoning four-wheel drive leisure market .
10 The reforms which have characterized the post-Ellis-Beto era derived from the actions of the believers in the supremacy of detailed legal guide-lines .
11 The Secretary gave further details of some of the activities undertaken , which have covered the whole range of railway interest from history , through trips on both BR and preserved lines , a walk along part of the old BCR trackbed , and a varied and interesting programme of talks , to a start on some preservation activities on a scale consistent with the resources of the Society and the area .
12 Hence , in recent years , we have witnessed the publication of the Gulbenkian Report , the report by the APU Working Party on Aesthetic Development , and the setting up of various national arts organizations , such as the National Association for Education in the Arts , all of which have argued the philosophical justification for arts education .
13 The poor overall results also concealed a creditable performance in the American and Australian mining operations , which have become the main cash-generating centres .
14 A variety of techniques have been applied to the complex structural and stratigraphic regimes which have affected the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands .
15 The processes of commercialization and industrialization which have affected the British press have reduced the overall number of titles .
16 Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so .
17 And this is more than can be said for the majority of other books which have exploited the same theme : that of man battling away , amid ignorance and fear , against some novel , lethal , unknown microorganism .
18 In Switzerland there are very few real plains , and the term Mittelland ( in which Mittel means something like " betwixt and between " ) is applied to the great areas of pre-alpine hills and of rolling plateau country which over millenia have been settled and cultivated by the ancestors and predecessors of the Swiss , and on which have grown the great historic centres of agricultural civilisation as well as the civilisation of cities .
19 This is the latest in a series of clinical errors which have bedeviled the national screening programme .
20 More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally .
21 If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower .
22 That those eyes which have witnessed the Divine Motherhood should henceforward be for ever lowered in contemplation in an enclosed cloister seems to me entirely fitting .
23 The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other .
24 The purpose of the research is to examine the factors which have influenced the rapid growth of subcontracting over the past decade in certain sectors .
25 The Kennedy case is one of many which have exposed the new Criminal Justice Act up to ridicule , with motoring offences in particular coming under the spotlight .
26 In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest .
27 The romantic days which have seen the bold David McTaggart striding the Pacific main in the Greenpeace ketch Vega to challenge the French bomb testers at Moruroa atoll may be passing simply because , in that particular case , the military reasons for testing are passing .
28 We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy .
29 Before I attempt to describe in detail the principal strands which have created the contemporary primary school it is necessary to appreciate the difficulty of isolating and then evaluating the contribution made by each of them .
30 I beg to move , That this House deplores the Government 's economic policies , which have caused the severe and continuing recession and which are damaging all parts of the economy and all areas of the nation ; and calls upon the Government to initiate without delay an investment based recovery including financial incentives for investment in manufacturing , tax credits for the enhancement of technology , assistance for regional economic development and a major programme of education and training to tackle Britain 's continuing skills crisis .
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