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

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1 When these shoals meet it is very likely to occur over a groundbaited area which has stopped one shoal in its tracks , and the other shoal pauses over the top to intercept the crumbs which are sent swirling upwards from the feeding shoal on the bottom .
2 Section 62 of the Act of 1967 deals with the revocation of licences , a subject which has aroused much controversy but with which we are not concerned in any of these appeals .
3 Elsewhere , particularly in the remoter upland areas , the issue which has aroused most controversy has been the purchase of second homes as weekend or holiday retreats .
4 A conference which has aroused enormous interest after the party suggested this week they would talk to Sinn Fein if the I R A ended its campaign of violence permanently .
5 One aspect of the contract which has provoked much discussion is the identification of specific activities which family doctors must undertake and the setting of targets for specific activities such as cervical smear testing .
6 Both research and the public have suffered greatly from premature publicity which has provoked excited demands for the material .
7 The plays have been a focus not only of critical activity employing new models for interpretive inquiry but also of scholarly activity which has contested many previous assumptions about how plays were performed , codified into texts , and circulated within society .
8 That of Lancashire , which has supported much diocesan work in the past , is facing very serious cuts .
9 Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture .
10 More popular than either of them is Radio 2 's ‘ Sunday Half Hour ’ which has presented well-loved hymns for fifty years .
11 The generous financial rewards paid in salaries and extras to Fund staff , combined with a lack of accountability , have produced a ‘ honeypot ’ mentality ; a preoccupation with material gratification and a lust for power which has stimulated personal greed and ambition , commitment to the status quo and an environment of ‘ yesmanship and stultifying conformity ’ .
12 Here we ran a daily contest in association with Interflora , a service which has sent fresh flowers and customers ' greetings from one end of the country to the other for almost 70 years .
13 There 's also a exhibition by the tactical communications wing which has sent three men to yugoslavia to help with the United Nations airlift of emergency aid .
14 Sunderland is in the Northern region which has endured industrial decline for much of the twentieth century .
15 The accompanying illustrations , which are fifty in number , were taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself , and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould , with that admirable success , which has attended all her works . ’
16 Heathrow , which has implemented some controls , is avoided by traders who realise that a stop over could result in a costly hold up and even prosecution .
17 POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing .
18 For example , instead of working within an LEA 's planned admissions policy , managers must have information that can help them in the recruitment programme which has become possible through open enrolment legislation .
19 It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living .
20 Traditional grammars give two main explanations of the use of the definite article ( the ) rather than the indefinite article ( a , an ) : the former is used before nouns referring to something unique , or before a noun which has become definite as a result of being mentioned a second time .
21 It encompasses an internal exploration of a personal history within a culture and inevitably differs in scale from much of the ‘ anthropology at home ’ which has become one of the genres of the 1980s .
22 We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’
23 The passionate understatement of Hiromi Tsuchida 's HIROSHIMA also appears to be related to a movement which has become international — that first identified by the exhibition NEW TOPOGRAPHICS : PHOTOGRAPHS OF A MAN-ALTERED LANDSCAPE ( International Museum of Photography , George Eastman House , NY 1975 ) .
24 Thus , under capitalism , women 's oppression is not simply a question of individual men oppressing individual women , nor of men in general oppressing women in general ; it takes the form of exploitation in the labour market , which has become essential to maintaining capitalism — low wages , harsh working conditions , little job security — as well as exploitation in the home and family .
25 When you change the behaviour pattern which has become second nature to you , the world around you will react differently .
26 In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer .
27 ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own .
28 It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer .
29 The trigger , which gives the fish its name , is the leading ray of its dorsal fin which has become bony .
30 By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic .
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