Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much knowledge has been accumulated since the antiquarians first started to take an interest , and archaeology has become an increasingly scientific discipline , using modern techniques such as aerial photography which has vastly increased the number of known sites , and carbon dating which has caused radical rethinking of accepted chronology . |
| 2 | Secondly , section 30(5) must presumably be read subject to the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 which has drastically reduced the ability of the parties to exclude or restrict the seller 's liability ( see paragraphs 10–14 onwards ) . |
| 3 | A recent case , which has authoratively reviewed the implied duty of fidelity as it applies to the use of confidential information once employment has ended , is Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ; [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 617 ( CA ) . |
| 4 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 5 | If it can , the scope of the remedy in damages is immensely wider than under pure municipal law , the modern legislation in which has generally eschewed the private action for damages as a means of enforcement . |
| 6 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 7 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 8 | It is a follow-up to the World Conservation Strategy of 1980 , which has since formed the basis for all or part of 50 national strategies in 50 . |
| 9 | There is a third point of view : that of weary or wilful ignorance , which has since banished the question almost entirely from intellectual discussion among ordinary , concerned people . |
| 10 | On 29 June 1559 , Henri wrote to the pope , that notorious bombast Paul IV , about ‘ the incredible disaster which has since befallen the realm of Scotland to our extreme regret , disgust and displeasure ’ ; the letter stated his ‘ confidence in God who is so signally offended at this wretched plague of ruffians ’ , but God was to be given worldly assistance in the shape of ‘ a large and sufficient force of French soldiers , infantry and cavalry ’ . |
| 11 | Part ( 3 ) was introduced by the County Court ( Amendment No 2 ) Rules 1991 , which has also abolished the restrictions on the venue in hire-purchase and sale of goods instalment contracts in the case of any action commenced after 1 July 1991 . |
| 12 | With the explanatory survey and the refinement of variable analysis as a way of thinking about social research , the interview and the questionnaire have become most important instruments in achieving the dream of a quantitative social science : it is this which has also modified the character and the rationale of interviewing and questionnaire design . |
| 13 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 14 | Shale extraction could make the United States self-sufficient in oil for the foreseeable future , thus eliminating dependence on foreign supplies , which has increasingly worried the Pentagon . |
| 15 | Flattened Fauna , which has just hit the streets , presents itself as a Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads , Streets and Highways . |
| 16 | At least those present will have the comforting knowledge that they will be voting on the future of a team which has just ascended the summit of the Scottish Second Division , although that must be considered more of a Ben Nevis than an Everest of the football world . |
| 17 | Rita Quick brought us up-to-date on the Training Course , which has just begun the autumn term with a new intake . |
| 18 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 19 | PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet . |
| 20 | A small interim rise to profits of £300m is due on Tuesday for food and drink group Allied-Lyons which has just got the go-ahead for the merger of its brewing interests with Carlsberg . |
| 21 | It has , from all accounts , been a successful marriage — as clearly shown , in part , by his recent recording of the American composer John Corigliano 's brilliant First Symphony ( which has just won the 1992 Grammy Award as Classical Record of the Year ) . |
| 22 | The abolition of the old 75 percent grant system for adaptations to privately owned homes has been replaced by the bureaucratic nightmare on the new system which has dramatically decimated the number of grants made to enable us to live in our own homes . |
| 23 | To remove the fly-by-night and seasonal aquaria , and the bad zoos , the RSPCA was instrumental in bringing forward the Zoo Licensing Act which has dramatically improved the standard of zoos and the welfare of wild animals in captivity . |
| 24 | In Namibia 's vast Etosha Game Par , WWF has scored a major success with the creation of a new , highly trained anti-poaching unit , which has dramatically reduced the numbers of animals lost . |
| 25 | Muddling along with Stalinism : Marlies Menge visits an East Berlin family which has not joined the exodus to the West |
| 26 | The purchaser , more often than not , is a University or institutional library which has not forgotten the value of books that previous generations have preserved — in this case for the people of England , though the libraries that end up owning the books are usually abroad . |
| 27 | In fact , the whole thing is certain to be fully explained in many textbooks , for there is nothing in an undergraduate course which has not had the attention of textbook writers . |
| 28 | In recent years there has also been an increasing trend towards imports of products rather than crude oil which has not helped the domestic oil industry . |
| 29 | Childcare for working mothers remains a personal issue and Britain is the only member of the EEC which has not endorsed the directive on parental leave . |
| 30 | Suspicion of family planning in part reflects the influence of the Popular Church which has openly rejected the theory that the demographic explosion is the cause of El Salvador 's economic and social problems . |