Example sentences of "which have [been] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move puts new pressure on Metromedia 's partner in the New York franchise , LIN Broadcasting , which has been the object of a hostile tender offer by McCaw since early summer . |
| 2 | The abductions have served to emphasise not only the anarchical state of Sidon itself , which has been the scene of five recent inter-Palestinian assassinations , but the vast Palestinian guerrilla presence in the city . |
| 3 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 4 | Sir : The letter from the vice-chancellor of Essex University ( 10 October ) reflects the appalling compliance with government views which has been the policy of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals over the last decade . |
| 5 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |
| 6 | This was the point which was most politically explosive , and this was the point which has been the cause of the greatest revilement of the book to this day . |
| 7 | The three Western Allies do n't agree with the East Germans on this point , which has been the cause of many disagreements in the past . |
| 8 | It is her work which has been the target of investigations by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) and a House subcommittee chaired by Congressman John Dingell , and of less formal inquiries at MIT and Tufts University Medical School , in Boston , where she now works . |
| 9 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 10 | On Monday , the Today programme , which has been the most heavily anti-Tory one for many years , decided that Michael Heseltine should be allowed to appear . |
| 11 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 12 | One concept which has been the focus of much debate in evaluating efficiency is that of the ‘ Quality Adjusted Life Year ’ or QALY developed by the health economist , Alan Williams . |
| 13 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 14 | Land-use practices have also altered the Fijian landscape , as has been discussed by Clarke and Morrison ( 1987 ) who point out that this is the result of sugar-cane cultivation which has been the mainstay of Fiji 's economy since the 1880s . |
| 15 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 16 | Still , it was the basis of a reformed act in 1913 , giving a revived inspectorate compulsory powers , which has been the basis for more effective protection ever since . |
| 17 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 18 | As this relates to English , the central concern of which has been the dissemination of liberal culture throughout society , it has undergone considerable revision . |
| 19 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 20 | Mistake , which has been the central football in this tournament , may however be analysed in a way which is neither exclusively subjectivist nor exclusively objectivist by adopting the synthesist approach immanent in Gordon 's ‘ reasonable man as a test ’ . |
| 21 | This is a topic which has been the focus of some scholarly discussion , partly because Leonardo himself is known to have visited the city in 1500 , but mainly because Vasari , in the second edition of the Lives , stated that Giorgione had been greatly impressed by some unspecified works of Leonardo 's which he had seen . |
| 22 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 23 | He and his wife ( a niece of Sir Alan Sykes. ) retired to the Cotswolds for a well-deserved rest from public service , though they remained as trustees of the Sir Alan Sykes Trust , a charitable fund established in 1954 and the main beneficiary of " which has been the School . |
| 24 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 25 | One of the longest mythological pedigrees belongs to the snake , which has been the subject of both loathing and reverence . |
| 26 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 27 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 28 | The new array of problems that we are now confronting highlights the complexity of the task in hand , while at the same time exposing the inherent weaknesses and the general philosophical insufficiency of an object-oriented ontological approach to the " problem of reality " , the categorial basis of which has been the subject of the past three chapters . |
| 29 | In more recent times this theory ( which has been the orthodoxy of post-war European Communist parties and Stalinist accounts of modern capitalism ) has been further refined to take account of the ever-increasing directive interventions of the state into the private economy , on top of earlier moves to provide social welfare concessions . |
| 30 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |