Example sentences of "the [noun pl] which have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital .
2 Given the complexities which have so far been uncovered , we may increasingly need to turn to experimental intervention research to better understand the mechanisms of support for differing types of stressful situations .
3 For these reasons and for the reasons which have already been given by Glidewell L.J. , I would dismiss this appeal .
4 Finally , he threw up slides showing the improvements which had already been achieved over the last three months .
5 She looked with horror at the fingers which had cruelly raked Bill Yardley 's face , and heard her own voice uttering words not even fit to be heard in the alleys .
6 They can , of course , cease payment at any time , but they break the contract and forgo virtually all the benefits since very little compensation is usually available for the premiums which have already been paid .
7 It then focuses more closely on what has been happening inside the UK and at the experiences of some of the schools which have already been financially autonomous .
8 There is widespread recognition that nearly all discussions of international peace and security over the last 45 years , and of policy implications for the UK , have been informed by the protracted global confrontation between the superpowers which has only recently , and so dramatically , crumbled .
9 Nevertheless , much repeal work still displayed the ambiguities which had always marked middle-class women 's participation in the domain of social reform .
10 Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have .
11 Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola .
12 In seeking to account for the shortcomings which have previously been identified in respect of our conventional political institutions it may be helpful to make use of a typology developed in a slightly different though related context by Kamenka and Tay ( Kamenka and Tay , 1975 ; Kamenka and Tay , 1980 ) .
13 In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences .
14 The Rano Raraku moais are taller than any of the statues which had actually been transported to and erected on ahus .
15 In his acceptance speech he called on delegates to work to overcome the rivalries which had traditionally split the country 's communist movement and invited " all left-oriented people " to join the new party .
16 The knowledge explosion means what it implies ; the task of producing a scheme that would really satisfy all needs , and avoid the criticisms which had very rightly been levied at all the previous schemes , was enormous .
17 For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end .
18 Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders .
19 ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made .
20 Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule .
21 There was extensive unrest in the west midlands , and in particular in Staffordshire , and these were the areas which had rapturously received Dr Sacheverell on his triumphant progress following his trial of 1710 .
22 In the cyclic natural scheme of things some kind of decay is essential , otherwise not only would the earth be cluttered with the stems of most of the plants which have ever lived , but most of the world 's supply of carbon would be locked up in cellulose so that life could not be carried on .
23 Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage .
24 Others are a matter of reassigning tasks , adjusting the timetable of a plan , scaling a project down or postponing the achievement of one or other of the targets which had originally been identified .
25 Martin then asked Drew about the trousers which had mysteriously , if not conveniently , disappeared in Reading , to show up later on the tour .
26 He reached up to his skull as if to seize the beads which had once adorned his scalp , though those had long since been shorn off along with his excess of black greasy hair ; as if to tug those and release an inner pressure .
27 Since you are on port tack , whereas the boats which have already lined up will be on starboard , your combined approach speed should mean that you will pass gaps quite frequently .
28 The movement owed its existence in part to an amalgam of anxieties specific to the London crisis of the 1860s , in particular to what Gareth Stedman Jones has called ‘ The Deformation of the Gift ’ , that is , the emergence of a gulf between the classes which had not only destroyed the ‘ gift relationship ’ involving elements of ‘ prestige , subordination and obligation ’ , but was also fundamentally responsible for the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor .
29 Thus if the buyer goes into liquidation before fully paying for the goods , any of the goods which have not been re-sold by the buyer and which remain unmixed will belong to the seller .
30 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many direct employees of Scottish Enterprise are currently working on the defence industries initiative he announced on 14 October 1991 ; and if he will make a statement on the actions which have so far been taken .
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