Example sentences of "which has [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Women comprise the vast majority of the market workforce , which has represented an important political force of the opposition movement in this century . |
2 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
3 | Mr Clark insisted he was completely innocent in the affair , which has provoked a political storm , engulfing even the Prime Minister in allegations that the Government had encouraged firms to breach the arms embargo . |
4 | One important theoretical characteristic of logogens which has stimulated a great deal of experimentation is that they mediate priming effects in word recognition , i.e. the faster recognition of a word following previous recent exposure to that word . |
5 | The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly . |
6 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |
7 | Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor . |
8 | Each work extends the ‘ augury ’ of Finnegans Wake : each work is a postmodernist paradigm , a prophecy of the self-reflexive foregrounding of language and fiction-making which has become a central , distinguishing characteristic of postmodernism . |
9 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
10 | In addition , there is fanaticism and lack of religious tolerance , which has become a major human rights problem in many parts of the world . |
11 | A second team is currently working at Moscow airport , which has become a major transit point for people without proper documents . |
12 | Forms will be available shortly for the Hale 5 road race on December 20 , which has become a popular pre-Christmas outing for runners , serious and not so serious . |
13 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
14 | The problem of the physical and sexual abuse of children , which has become a dominant theme of family studies and of the work of the social services in the 1970s and 1980s , is increasingly seen as one that replicates itself across generations . |
15 | The Australian Federal Police are saying little about the affair , which has become a national scandal , but they have admitted the discovery of illegal bugs on the phones of Mr Robert Holmes a Court , Sydney stockbroker Mr Peter Burrows and a leading Australian financial journalist , Mr Terry McCran of the Melbourne Herald , a trenchant critic of the Bond Corporation . |
16 | ANOREXIA NERVOSA is an eating disorder which has become an increasing problem over recent years especially as there is so much pressure these days to be ‘ thin ’ . |
17 | " This is the second edition of a handbook which has become an essential companion of teachers and students of tropical medicine and parasitology throughout the world . |
18 | This grant is to encourage the continuation of a series which has become an accepted and much quoted source of reference . |
19 | Most of all this influence is to be seen in the practice of close reading , which has become an established part of English literature courses in Britain . |
20 | From early days English Teetotallers had felt it their duty to correct their American brethren when they fell short , a trait which has become an intricate part of general English attitudes towards America . |
21 | Each month Norma Steinberg will be showing one of the wild animals which has become an endangered species on a beautifully drawn chart and portrayed on a suitable sweater style . |
22 | ‘ The research … will contribute to overcoming the effects of sweet potato weevil which has become an insurmountable problem to control with conventional approaches , ’ says the company . |
23 | Sheffield has a very active Natural History Society , which has accumulated a good knowledge of this city 's fauna . |
24 | It is set apart a little from Barnham Junction , where the trains for Bognor Regis leave the main line and around which has grown an early suburbia on the flat lands near the sea . |
25 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
26 | MINISTERS fear that unemployment , which has hit a six-year high at over three million , will continue to rise for up to 18 months and could delay economic recovery . |
27 | The district councils group , which has employed a public relations company to press its case against replacing the districts with one or two large single-tier Highland authorities , also showed Mr Lang a video promoting their view . |
28 | Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation . |
29 | Mr. Dobson : Setting aside the Lord President 's snide references to the London food commission , which has done a considerable amount of good work , I ask him whether , instead of being so complacent , he would be prepared to undertake a thoughtful and organised survey of the views of Hon. Members and of the other people who have to use the cafeterias in this place |
30 | The history of the British car industry ( refer to Chapter 4 ) , which has seen a whole series of mergers , is one example which shows that the potential benefits of mergers are not automatically secured . |