Example sentences of "[prep] which we have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already made my views clear : officials have written to every education authority about which we have received evidence of a failure to carry out its statutory duties — and we will continue to pursue the matter vigorously . |
| 2 | It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth . |
| 3 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 4 | The first difference between now and the 1970s arises from the experience of the past 12 years , during which we have witnessed a growing and marked centralisation of power . |
| 5 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 6 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 7 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 8 | This decision will not affect any of the other Group Secretarial awards for which we have seen an overall increase in demand internationally . |
| 9 | It is in fact Twinings of the Strand who market the brand , for which we have received a few erroneous enquiries . ’ |
| 10 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 11 | It is our view that the ‘ differentiated ’ view of the legal system for which we have argued provides insights into the structures and processes of the legal system which traditional theories do not , and perhaps more importantly , points to the necessity of analysing both the social context of , and power structures associated with , the legal system when deploying legal arguments on behalf of the peace movement . |
| 12 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 13 | The general election will be the opportunity for which we have waited . |
| 14 | Under the policy terms and endorsements , we will insure you against certain legal liability , loss or damage which occurs during any period of insurance for which we have accepted your premium for . |
| 15 | We will complete the new British Library building for which we have provided £450 million . |
| 16 | They are known by letters for which we have provided suitable mnemonics : ‘ A ’ ( the Accounting Committee ) deals with Budget and Finance as well as Trade and External Relations ; ‘ B ’ ( the Blazing Committee ) deals with energy and technology as well as transport ; ‘ C ’ ( the Caring Committee ) scrutinizes consumer and social affairs ; ‘ D ’ ( the Digging Committee ) is responsible for agriculture ; ‘ F ’ , the Environmental Committee is named the ‘ Friends of the Earth ’ ; Sub-Committee E ( Law and Institutions ) is traditionally chaired by a Law Lord — formerly by Lord Oliver of Aylmerton and now by Lord Slynn of Hadley — and is known as the Legal Eagles Committee . |
| 17 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 18 | We will pay to you such sum as may be fair and reasonable in all the circumstances of the case in respect of work performed by you under this order prior to cancellation , and in respect of which we have received the benefit . |
| 19 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 20 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 21 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 22 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |
| 23 | Detailed trends in the distribution of income at any one time are the net result of many forces , several of which we have mentioned already . |
| 24 | It is also that the perspectives necessarily adopted by very different interest groups , some of which we have tried to reproduce here , will contain a degree of indeterminacy of translation between themselves . |
| 25 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |
| 26 | The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly . |
| 27 | I am not sure how accurately that can be measured , but it represents a substantial cost to the NHS , which the hon. Member for Eccles compared , in my view rightly , with the large sums of money that the European Community still commits to subsidising tobacco production , against which we have argued vehemently in Brussels . |
| 28 | Jacob 's talk of blessing invites us to step out of the demon myth and fairy story , back into a land with which we have grown familiar , where human beings bump not into demons , but into God himself . |
| 29 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
| 30 | What sticks in the craw of many is swallowed whole , and Future Tense is full of the critical imagery with which we have become so familiar : edifices are really only facades , and anyway these are decaying . |