Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue . |
2 | In the last five years , however , many of these centres , though still offering a two-year part-time programme leading to a Certificate in Education ( FE ) , have become part of the provision which has stemmed from the 1975 Haycocks Report , whose recommendations we examine in detail below . |
3 | The number of visitors to Redcar has fallen dramatically according to latest figures and Langbaurgh councillors blame its ‘ invisible ’ tourist information office , which has moved from the seafront to Dundas Street . |
4 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
5 | The second source of ‘ goodness ’ is from the centuries of human struggle which has endured since the dawn of civilisation . |
6 | A small market town which has lived off the land for centuries is now looking forward to a high-tec future . |
7 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
8 | Bonn 's cultural life should nevertheless be enhanced by its new Kunst-und-Ausstellungshalle , an exhibition complex which has risen on the site adjacent to the Stadtmuseum . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Civil war has severely hampered the efforts of relief agencies to curb the ravages of drought and famine which has swept through the Horn of Africa and is threatening much of the surviving Somali population with further massive loss of life . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | All of this creates the fractured rivalry which has existed during the whole of my service and which has survived attempts by management to ‘ weld the uniform and C.I.D . |
14 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
15 | There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS . |
16 | DETERRED by a quotation of £3,000 for the work , Four Marks Parish Council have decided not to get the mound of earth and builders ' rubble which has accumulated at the village centre levelled . |
17 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
18 | Also new is the requirement that a private company which has elected under the substituted section 252 to dispense with the laying of accounts before a general meeting or , under section 366A , to dispense with the holding of annual general meetings , must so state in the return . |
19 | Local initiative and pluralism , growth of decision-making centres , and space for individual/group autonomy would promote an active citizenry as opposed to individuals set apart from the authoritative state which has grown under the Conservatives in the last twelve years . |
20 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ 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 . |
24 | No more than 15 pairs of the bird are in the country , and the pair which has appeared at the site for the last 15 years is the only one in the south-west . |
25 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
26 | David Bonser commented : ‘ The completion of construction is a tremendous team success which has built on the efforts of many people over many years . |
27 | Q : Are we going to be able to regain the business which has declined in the Japanese market ? |
28 | The rapidly deteriorating relationship which has developed between the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) and the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) in recent years can be ascribed to similar factors . |
29 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
30 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |