Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's main 32 acre site incorporates the most up-to-date laboratory and production facilities , bearing witness to the commitment to research and development which have played such an important role in the company 's dramatic growth .
2 Provision of materials and expert personnel is only part of the requirement ; teachers need opportunities to pool ideas and programmes , share one another 's resources on a personal advice basis , find compatible people to whom to turn for educational and emotional support , meet together in courses and workshops at a variety of levels , often very informally , and find the unusual people or collections in the community that the Exeter project is noting and which have played such a useful part in the work of Devon schools .
3 The problem is solved by an appeal to the ‘ folk ’ qualities of black American musical traditions , which have played such an important role in the development of twentieth-century popular music .
4 A notable feature of the greenstones which have played such a crucial role in the social life of the New Zealand Maori is that their sources were confined to the South Island , whereas due to the warmer climate and the requirements of important food plants , population was mainly concentrated on the North Island .
5 In recent years there have been a number of wide ranging official reviews of most aspects of UK competition policy , which have involved widespread consultations with academia , business and other interested parties .
6 This movement has been most clearly indicated by regular sea-watches , which have recorded small easterly movements between the late March and early May , and a westerly movement between October and December .
7 Britain argues this would result in an impoverished country , prey to all the economic ills which have beset other African states .
8 An examination of the development of the nouveau roman displays exactly those difficulties with periodization which have beset postmodernist poetics , calling into question the legitimacy of literary history as a critical practice itself .
9 Our evaluation identified some of these shared features , and showed how primary schools tended to cluster towards a number of broad types in respect of certain issues bearing on the management of PNP : for example , the roles undertaken by support staff and coordinators , and by deputy heads ; the managerial styles of senior staff ; the management structures which framed the defining and implementing of school policy ; the policies themselves ; heads ' stances on the ideas and practices which have constituted mainstream primary thinking since Plowden ; and heads ' leadership styles .
10 It is here , as much as in psychology , that woman-centred theories of subjectivity are articulated ; for woman-centred theories look like humanist psychological theories which have redefined human potential as feminine potential .
11 Authors may present additional copies of theses to external co-sponsoring bodies , or to bodies which have rendered substantial assistance with some aspect of the research .
12 SKINS WHICH HAVE SUFFERED SEVERE SUNBURN IN THE PAST , PARTICULARLY IN CHILDHOOD .
13 Unlike both Arctic and long-tailed skuas , which have pointed central feathers , those of the pomarine are spoon-shaped and are very obvious in adult birds .
14 It is therefore necessary to consider on a cross-national basis for industrialised market ( or mixed ) economies the genesis and evolution of employers ' associations , external to the firm or enterprise , which have typified collective bargaining arrangements with unions in most Western European countries .
15 Note has also been taken of where particular groups have positioned themselves at various times in their evolution , and of the differences in style which have characterized such groups over time .
16 When many modes are involved , this phenomenon results in very short pulses — typically picoseconds — which have grabbed most of the attention because of their many applications .
17 The ingredients of some pesticides have been found not to be injurious to fish , but when an otter consumes a large amount of fish which have absorbed those chemicals , then the otter can become affected and may die or become sterile .
18 The atrocious cruelties committed in the name of ‘ god ’ and religion which have blackened religious history , are all too well known , at least in the west .
19 Among the latter are to be counted the dynamics of a world economy which produce instabilities and difficulties within states and between states which outreach the control of any single ‘ centre ’ ; the rapid growth of transnational links which have stimulated new forms of collective decision-making involving states , intergovernmental organisations and an array of international pressure groups ; the build-up of military arms and the general means of warfare as a ‘ stable feature ’ of the contemporary political world .
20 As part of its operation , OSO also relies on feedback from companies which have gained first-hand experience of trading in specific markets .
21 , A survey has shown that the number of major companies which have adopted corporate environmental policies rose from 41 per cent to 66 per cent in 1991 .
22 At present , long-term lending is the preserve of only a handful of merchant banks , such as Mediobanca and Istituto Mobiliare Italiano , which have built strong ties with Italy 's leading industrial groups .
23 There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) .
24 At first sight this would appear to be a new development , but in reality it reflects a long-term trend which has been masked until now by a series of new acquisitions which have increased total sales each year .
25 The period since 1970 has also been characterised by three major bouts of house price inflation which have increased average house prices by over 600% .
26 Recently there have been a number of mergers between these companies which have increased this financial pressure .
27 Recently there have been serious developments pertaining to the activities of the group known as the Mandela Football Club which have raised great concern within the mass democratic movement and struggling people as a whole .
28 These financings , which have raised aggregate gross proceeds of US$600 million , will substantially refinance LASMO 's bank debt arranged at the time of the Ultramar acquisition , and strengthen the balance sheet .
29 As a public figure hero-worshipped by countless youngsters , his drug-taking was a sad business , but few people in any field have ever used their fame better than his long-distance walks which have raised vast sums for charity .
30 It superseded the very successful Coalville open days which have raised thousands of pounds for charity over the last nine years .
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