Example sentences of "forces that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 2 | The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight . |
| 3 | Forces that had kept the size of Fleet Street under continuous pressure for more than 25 years were broken . |
| 4 | In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now . |
| 5 | In the doctrinal disputes , power struggles , and eventual warfare unleashed by the Reformation were forces that had a profound bearing on how a controversial scientific innovation , such as that of Copernicus , would be perceived . |
| 6 | Moreover when the Iraqi First Corps swept up at Panjwin , they evicted Iranian forces that had been in possession since 1983 . |
| 7 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 8 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 9 | This multiple view of Cruz not only gives an insight into the conflicting forces that have been struggling to control his soul , but also reflects his loss of integrity as a man and his disintegration in face of his approaching death . |
| 10 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 11 | Already it seems clear that the same forces that have acted to bind together trade and investment flows within the OECD are affecting South-South economic relations . |
| 12 | This in turn demands an exploration of a variety of forces that have shaped and constructed ‘ modern sexuality ’ , and these range from the familial and extra-familial forces that shape sexual and gender orientation at the level of the individual , to the social and industrial transformations that have altered class relations . |
| 13 | The result is a fascinating and poignant tapestry in which each rug is both the unique expression of an individual tribe or group and , at the same time , an integral part of the wider forces that have shaped the carpet-making world . |
| 14 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 15 | To understand the UK economy and the restructuring of Britain that has been occurring we have to consider not only the response of British industry to changes in the world economy , but the character of those global changes themselves and the forces that have produced them . |
| 16 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 17 | Does the Minister agree that perhaps a more urgent problem than the control of nuclear weapons in the republics of the former Soviet Union could be the vast amounts of conventional weapons that are in the hands of highly discontented and underpaid armed forces that have serious problems ? |
| 18 | The research aims to identify the decisions and practices which constitute rational management in two police Forces that have explicitly adopted such rational management models but which differ in approach and method of implementation . |
| 19 | Positive things ; not the dark , destructive forces that have damaged your life for so long . ’ |