Example sentences of "which [verb] [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 2 | Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years . |
| 3 | They are devout members of the hierarchical Catholic Church , which has been one of the main influences on their lives . |
| 4 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 5 | of having sort of help set something off and then tiptoe away which has been one of my functions , that , that , that it can happen |
| 6 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 7 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 8 | The second particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the targeting of cities and other locations not of a strictly military character . |
| 9 | This new exhibition area is the first stage of the Nuovi Uffizi complex , which has been subject to delays even though the funds have long been available . |
| 10 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 11 | This is an emotive case , which has been subject to a full investigation by the special investigation branch of the Royal Military Police , and disciplinary action has been taken against the soldier in relation to the allegations . |
| 12 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |
| 13 | He has the HLA B8 DR3 haplotype and an 18 year history of ulcerative colitis which has been quiescent for more than 12 months . |
| 14 | Part of the blame for that has to be accepted by the industry , which has been guilty of complacency . |
| 15 | It is not only Catholic Christendom which has been guilty of seeking to domesticate the Holy Spirit in this way . |
| 16 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 17 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 18 | ITALIAN-owned RCS Video has bought a majority stake in London-based Majestic Films International , which has been involved in the financing and marketing of a series of successful films including Dances with Wolves and Henry V. Guy East , who founded the company in 1988 , will retain a significant shareholding and takes over as chief executive . |
| 19 | OFFICIALS of Amerada Hess , the US oil group which has been involved in developing several North Sea projects , warned yesterday that its drilling programme could be cut in half by tax changes proposed in the Budget . |
| 20 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 21 | This focusing on JC has been noted by many writers , and is the basis for the term " London Jamaican " which has been current at least since Rosen and Burgess ( 1980 ) . |
| 22 | From 1973 the winter service has been operated by one-man cars as an economy measure which has been successful in saving the line . |
| 23 | The plan seeks in part to reverse centuries of reclamation of low-lying land for agriculture , which has been successful in increasing crop yields but has been accompanied by a deterioration in the natural environment . |
| 24 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 25 | Boro began with a 4–5–1 formation which has been successful in recent away games . |
| 26 | The report is presently unfinished and unpublished , allegedly because of opposition from the Bush administration , which has been intent on playing down the possible effects of global warming . |
| 27 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 28 | In Chester-le-Street , which has been Labour since Genesis , the Liberal Democrat wins a school mock election ahead of the very pretty Conservative , with Labour last . |
| 29 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 30 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |