Example sentences of "which have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 2 | As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity . |
| 3 | The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . |
| 4 | The move , at the 1,900-pupil Holyrood Roman Catholic Secondary in Glasgow , could pose a major threat to Strathclyde 's schools closure programme and present a tempting plum to the Scottish Office , which has been encouraging schools to leave council control and go for self-governing status . |
| 5 | The British public is increasingly distrustful of industry on environmental issues and there is rising support for the idea that " the polluter pays " , according to Bob Worcester , chairman of market research firm MORI , which has been tracking attitudes to the environment since 1969 . |
| 6 | , Scientists at the Dutch Central Veterinary Institute claim to have isolated the cause of the Mystery Reproductive Syndrome ( MRS ) disease which has been sweeping pig herds across much of western Europe over the past few months , leading to the loss of up to 10 per cent of offspring in some herds . |
| 7 | Since that time there has been an uneasy peace in the world the price of which has been constant vigilance and in keeping that peace our two countries have continued together as the witness of young American Airforce men currently stationed in this country . |
| 8 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 9 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
| 10 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 11 | Learning from their heavy losses , the Soviets abandoned offensives using convoys of tanks , which had been easy targets , and adopted more flexible methods , relying particularly on helicopter raids . |
| 12 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 13 | Largely because the sport had focused almost entirely on the racing craft used on inland waters , the Firths of Clyde , Forth and Tay , which had been strong centres once , had all but died away : with Royal West boating mainly in Glasgow and the new Dundee University on the Tay near Perth . |
| 14 | In June 1990 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , a leading government claimant , had established a special task force to investigate whether Drexel had contributed to the failure of any of the savings and loans institutions ( " thrifts " ) which had been big customers of the bank . |
| 15 | The result — a rather higher rate of completion of power stations and higher spending four or five years later in the mid-1950s — was welcomed by the Electricity Division , but it annoyed the Treasury and caused political embarrassment for the Government ( which had been promising restraint in the public sector ) . |
| 16 | Most of these developments have bypassed the work of the established Rape Crisis Lines , which have been developing expertise in the counselling of women who have suffered sexual assault . |
| 17 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 18 | For instance past spending behaviour is always likely to be a factor in practice , with departments which have been reliable spenders more likely to be given funds than those who have been allocated money but not spent it . |
| 19 | off Tottenham Court Road , west London , one of ‘ the numerous streets which have been devoted time out of mind to professional people , dispensaries and boarding-houses ’ . |