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

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1 Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time .
2 So the world is one nation which has branched into lesser nations .
3 Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall .
4 By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ .
5 Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’
6 It is perhaps important to redress the rather gloomy tone which has crept into this section , by making two points .
7 The introduction of the card was part of the evolutionary process which has begun in 1850 when Wells and Fargo merged to form a company which transported valuables across America by Express delivery — thus American Express .
8 He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ .
9 But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset .
10 The National Retreat Movement which has existed for 30 years to promote spirituality and retreats of all kinds within the Catholic community of England , Wales and Scotland , has the information available .
11 On Tuesdays and Fridays , Dartmouth market , which has existed since 1828 , still bustles .
12 However , of the three areas excluded from potential transfer to the Community , it might be argued that customs co-operation was already implicit in the concept of the customs union ( which has existed since 1968 ) .
13 One leader took between fifteen and twenty people , hired a hall , broke the link with the Cobham Fellowship and began to establish a church which has grown to some sixty members .
14 It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years .
15 Bangladesh , suffering a 15% per annum population migration to the cities , coupled with a population which has grown from 75 million to 90 million over the past decade is a further example .
16 It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today .
17 It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today .
18 Bergman 's ( 1979 ) comments on Sweden indicate that it is also a belief which has appeared in other countries .
19 In a recent editorial , the Communist daily Trybuna Ludu alluded to this problem , when it warned that ‘ many comrades do n't see the danger which has appeared in recent months ’ .
20 They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin .
21 HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it .
22 The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held .
23 Keynesian economics , they say , is the comparative static equilibrium approach to macroeconomics which has developed from other people 's interpretations of the General Theory .
24 It is also the result of long-standing commercial relationships and the mutual respect which has developed from these .
25 The Midland , which has suffered from financial troubles , hopes to attract green consumers to the fund which will invest in companies which specialise in the monitoring and implementation of pollution control .
26 ‘ The bypass will bring environmental benefits by taking away through traffic and by allowing the regeneration of the market-place , which has suffered from all the traffic .
27 Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone .
28 This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance .
29 The situation which has applied in two out of the last three years , when percentage cuts or hold-backs were applied across the board by Management , is incompatible with the special factors involved in Library financial management .
30 The inhabitants of the village … are annoyed and their property and persons endangered by a practice which has prevailed of late years of great numbers of persons resorting from Brighton to Patcham under pretence of a holiday on palm Sunday filling the Ale Houses and Beer Shop , getting intoxicated , becoming riotous and creating disturbances in the village street .
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