Example sentences of "which have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 An ancient city which has plunged right into the midst of the twentieth century , Bangkok is a fascinating mixture of ancient and modern values — noisy markets right next to the high walls of turreted royal palaces , serene gardens overlooked by modern hotels and the notorious Phatphong Road for discos , massage parlours and outrageous floorshows .
2 This is a colourful town at any time of the year , and one which has moved purposefully into the twentieth century .
3 If he does not , the uncertainty of the past few months — which has become worse in the past three weeks — will continue to hang over the coal industry .
4 There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice .
5 It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century .
6 The job losses are a further milestone in the decline of County Durham 's textile industry which has suffered severely during the current economic recession .
7 We live in a free market economy which has prospered considerably over the last ten or so years .
8 This is an area which has expanded enormously in the last twenty years , and there are now a large number of independent schools ( of varying degrees of professionalism and quality ) , as well as state sector Colleges of F.E. and H.E .
9 I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her .
10 However , there are many in Britain who feel that the US approach , which has relied heavily on the CD4 measure in licensing other potential anti-AIDS drugs , is wrong , and that the decision to put a patient on AZT should be more broadly based , using a number of factors — including the best current estimate of likely long-term risks and benefits — rather than a simple formula .
11 It is a veritable relic from the past to be observed in a setting which has changed little in the last few hundred years , thus making the pervading atmosphere one of awesome pastoral antiquity .
12 Our review of the further education sector in Wales reveals a situation which has changed considerably during the past twelve years or so .
13 Software Partners/32 Inc which has laboured long in the DEC vineyards is branching out into Unix for the first time .
14 A reconstruction of the concert formed a centrepiece of Manchester 's Festival of Expressionism , which has looked again at the German and Austrian blossoming that anticipated the dominant issues of 20th-century culture .
15 The system is one which has worked well in the United States .
16 The University , which has worked previously for the European Commission , are carrying out the research with partners in other member states .
17 One of the largest settlements in Gloucestershire is that at Bourton-on-the-Water , which has spread westwards from the Iron Age fort at Salmonsbury towards the Fosse Way , which it treats almost as a secondary feature ( fig. 7.4 ) ; but it is here , where the road bridge crosses the Windrush , that Mrs Helen O'Neil has found a Posting .
18 One of the most advanced initiatives in the area of pre-school and special needs is Portage which has spread dramatically throughout the UK in the past 12 years .
19 In football , rugby , or cricket the ability to stop the frame at the crucial moment or play-back a sequence , which has come recently with the development of video , has actually placed the viewer and the commentator in a better position to make a decision than the unfortunate referee or umpire .
20 There is also a softer side , which has evolved far beyond the fighting form and concerns itself with psychological and physical development It is called tai chi chuan or the ‘ grand ultimate fist ’ .
21 The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question .
22 Six weeks later the town , which had suffered heavily from the bombardment of English cannon , capitulated .
23 He later retracted the comments and explained that they were made after visiting an area which had suffered lightly from the storm and that he was unaware of the true extent of the devastation .
24 As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century .
25 It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won .
26 The existence of this power resulted , ironically , in the fact that those African newspapers which had campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause now enjoyed less freedom under the very governments that they had helped to create .
27 Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology .
28 According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species .
29 In the immediate aftermath of the rioting the vignerons tried to excuse their actions by claiming that only houses which practised the blending of wines from the Midi had been molested , but there was no evidence to bear this out and even houses which had kept strictly to the noble blends had been attacked .
30 Meanwhile on Jan. 23 he was sentenced to five years in prison , after a two-day trial , for forging the document allegedly signed by Papandreou which had featured prominently in the evidence presented against Papandreou .
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