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

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1 My main objective , however , was to see the regalia of St Stephen which have played so large a part , albeit symbolic , in Hungarian history and which have gone on such varied walkabout .
2 ‘ Attitude surveys have identified certain needs and more information is coming from the introduction of appraisals , which have involved about half of Courtaulds ’ employees so far .
3 Under normal circumstances , such as those which have pertained there for at least 685 years , it would hardly have been worth investigating .
4 For financial institutions , which have suffered much from their heavy exposure to property ( through direct ownership and loans ) , this burst of activity is a godsend .
5 There 's a Danish proverb , you know , that states that fish and guests smell after three days and er we all know the visits which have begun so successfully from friends and relatives , it need n't be Christmas , it could be at any time of the year , which are often ruined by people lingering on well past their sell-by date .
6 Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis .
7 The consortium du jour is the brand new SGML Open , a group of electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies which have banded together to push SGML ( Standard Generalised Markup Language ) as an international and commercial standard for document and data interchange .
8 We 've received reports of dogs which have reacted adversely to low-dose electric shock training .
9 However , despite Eurotunnel 's concern with safety numerous changes have been made to its designs and specifications , especially of the shuttle fleet , which have contributed significantly to the increasing costs of the project .
10 Whether the problem is the result of old presuppositions which have not been rooted out or of alien presuppositions which have filtered in , the effect is the same .
11 Only so can we begin to examine the contradictory presuppositions of educational theory , conceptual confusions which have led inevitably to fumbling and uncertain practice .
12 His ‘ insights ’ into human nature are a jumble of cliches , and his novel about a serial killer , Maigret tend un piege ( Maigret Sets a Trap ) , parrots those popular myths on the subject which have obstructed just about every police inquiry since the case of Jack the Ripper .
13 It seems most likely then , that the increasing police budgets ( up from £3.35 billion in 1988/9 to £4.1 billion in 1989/90 ) , which have risen by over 50 per cent in real terms since 1979 , will be used to maintain , defend , and expand on this hegemonic style .
14 Those societies survive and flourish which have discovered how to exploit its preservative effects while containing the destructive ones .
15 The drift to a cappella solutions might also be interpreted as a reaction to the individualism and subjectivism of the 1960s , both of which have lingered so long in the performance of medieval and ( some ) Renaissance music .
16 I remember sending far more callers on then to general befriending and support organizations ( of which far more existed ) and fewer to specialist social groups and youth groups ( which have blossomed since ) .
17 If the advice is more positive , will the parents be able to shrug off attitudes which have built up over decades in a few days ?
18 And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches .
19 The low spending figure is , in part , a tribute to the way the NHS has been able to keep down health costs which have increased much faster in other countries , most notably those with insurance-based systems of finance ( see below ) .
20 A slightly different approach to prevent dogs pulling on the leash is provided by head collars , which have become widely available during recent years .
21 A total of 2,640 dykes were examined , half of which have become floristically impoverished within the last 17 years .
22 The material retained in each successive sieve is emptied in turn on to a sheet of glazed paper , the sieve tapped gently in a direction diagonal to the meshes and swept with appropriate sieve brushes ( camel hair for fine apertures , brass for coarse screens ) to dislodge particles which have become firmly held .
23 But the distinction carried other overtones as well , which have become even more central in more recent applications of the distinction .
24 In passages which have become well known , the medieval woman mystic Julian of Norwich speaks of God as both Father and Mother and of the trinity as exemplifying fatherhood and motherhood .
25 Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill .
26 ‘ Rural children have no right to play in areas which have become increasingly dangerous , ’ says Alison Marshall , new rural development officer for the Kids ' Clubs Network .
27 This minimizes fraudulent issuances and transfers , which have become increasingly common to the negotiable ocean bill of lading .
28 The proposed expansion of the zoning scheme , which has been on trial in three city-centre wards since 1990 , has already won the clear support of the police , residents ' groups and the hospitals , which have become increasingly concerned about late-night disturbances and violence .
29 The extension of the franchise , the growth of national mass parties and the development of the mass media have changed the nature of general elections , which have become largely personalised into a contest between party leaders .
30 There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru .
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