Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] which have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Britain had developed an electoral system the basic characteristics of which have been delineated above : single-member constituencies , first-past-the-post election to determine the winner in each , and each adult citizen having the right to cast a vote . |
| 2 | It was anticipated , therefore , that the Premiers ' talks — three sessions of which had been held since September 1990 — would be resumed in April or May . |
| 3 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 4 | Yet it is clear in references to natural justice that our conception of law is bound up with ideas of notice , fair hearing , representation and open judgment , aspects of which have been denied in the admission of children to the care of the state , and particularly in parental rights resolutions by local authorities . |
| 5 | Within the complex history of the twentieth century it is possible to discern a number of dominant tendencies , and distinct periods , various aspects of which have been illuminated and made more intelligible by political and sociological thinkers of diverse schools . |
| 6 | By placing a tethered owl under a tree , the branches of which had been covered with sticky lime , it was possible to trap small birds as they gathered to mob the bird of prey . |
| 7 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 8 | Employment relations as a fundamental relation of organizations upon which has been constructed a whole discourse of the determinism of size as a contingency variable increasingly gave way to more complex and fragmentary relational forms , such as subcontracting and networking . |
| 9 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 10 | The reasons underlying that decision and the factors that my right hon. Friend and I took into account are fully set out in the letter of 1 November to the chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales , copies of which have been placed in the Library . |
| 11 | I move that the minutes of the meeting of the council held on thirtieth of June nineteen ninety three , copies of which have been circulated to members , to be taken as read , confirmed and signed . |
| 12 | Moreover , the case studies reported , where MITI was highly influential , were not entirely typical : ‘ Some of the rapidly expanding ‘ new ’ industries , the products of which have been increasingly exported all over the world — such as motor cycles , bearings ( especially miniature bearings ) , transistor radios , TV sets , tape recorders , pianos and zippers — received relatively little government assistance even in their infancy periods . |
| 13 | It would encompass the many quangos that the Government have set up in many areas , the operations of which have been highly criticised by the Public Accounts Committee and the Audit Commission . |
| 14 | But this good housekeeping has been swept aside by the latest wave of IRA terrorism aimed at commercial targets on the mainland , one of the repercussions of which has been that , from 1 January this year , landlords and/or tenants have been required to take out a separate insurance policy to cover their buildings against terrorist damage . |
| 15 | In addition , there is the most important demand-side pressure — namely , changes in the demand for labour locally and nationally , the effects of which have been largely overlooked in previous research . |
| 16 | This comparative approach can also be used to analyse brainstem areas , the functions of which have been modified by the evolution of neocortical areas . |
| 17 | There were some letters to his mother , widowed and living in Bury — some phrases from which had been plundered for the article in the Sunday Chronicle . |
| 18 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 19 | On the top terrace was a line of cypress leylandii trees , quite small as yet , eight rhododendron bushes — obviously fairly recent plantings , and on ground level a grinding stone four feet across which had been set on a granite plinth and made into a table with slate seats supported on bricks at right angles to it . |
| 20 | The need has not diminished following the government 's whistle-blowers ' charter , the inadequacies of which have been exposed by Dr Helen Zeitlin , vice-president of the NHS Support Federation ( Guardian letters , October 22 ) . |
| 21 | In addition aid money from the food programme , which by 1989 was worth $1,300 million per year to Iraq in loan guarantees , was channelled through the Atlanta branch of the Italian-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro , officials of which had been indicted for a separate multi-million dollar fraud involving arms for Iraq in 1989 [ see pp. 37425-26 ] . |
| 22 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 23 | What we see is a little temple-state , the economic and social structures of which had been shattered by the recent wars between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V. Palestine had passed from Egyptian to Syrian control . |
| 24 | The most complex of the risings was the Pilgrimage of Grace , the problems of which have been covered in two important papers , both of which stress the varying motives of the participants ( 68 ; 69 ) . |
| 25 | The procedure for applying for the prerogative remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus is contained in Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) , some provisions of which have been re-enacted in statutory form in section 31 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 26 | A human gastric cell line ( HGT-1 ) is now available , the properties of which have been partially characterised . |
| 27 | Some slight insight into early local agricultural practices may be obtained from such things as Anglo-Saxon charters , details of which have been published ( from 1961 onwards ) in a series of volumes called The Early Charters of … , and commentaries on land usage such as in The Domesday Geography of … , each volume of which deals with a particular region . |
| 28 | Call upon Councillor to move a motion , details of which have been circulation . |
| 29 | I call upon Councillor to move a motion , details of which have been circulated . |
| 30 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |