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

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1 Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) .
2 As we will see in Part II , the answer which the courts have given to this question is neither an unqualified ‘ yes ’ nor an unqualified ‘ no ’ .
3 Given a certain meaning which the courts have ascribed to the term employee , how closely should they supervise the application of that term to the facts of a particular case ?
4 Whether this sense of unreasonableness is needed at all , and the way in which the courts have manipulated it , well be one of the matters discussed .
5 This part analyses the limits which the courts have placed on the freedom of an employee in the absence of express restrictive covenants and upon the ability of employers to restrain employees by contractual restrictions .
6 The only area in which the courts have examined the use of the Chinese wall in any significant depth concerns the use of walls by firms of solicitors which have found themselves advising a client who has an adversarial relationship with a former client .
7 The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account .
8 As we shall see , the controls which the courts have developed are as much concerned with supplementing legislative intent as with implementing it .
9 A third way in which the courts have moved from considerations of procedural form to substance , is by interpreting the concept of fairness as allowing them to consider , in a general sense , whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable .
10 However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect .
11 We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons .
12 The way in which the courts have interpreted improper purposes , relevancy and unreasonableness must now be examined in more detail .
13 In fact , independently of current concern about the constitution , there has been a trend to " judicial activism " that has resulted in a situation in which the courts have shown a much greater willingness to become involved in challenging the use of ministerial discretion and prerogative powers .
14 It is the former image which the courts have tended to have before them when reviewing the decisions of corporate managers .
15 What Kleinwort needed , to give more useful advice , was the detailed forecasts of the company 's and industry 's prospects up until 1992 which the managers had given to their own backers .
16 It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 .
17 The ease with which the nationalists have rekindled historical resentment and traditional chauvinisms bears witness to the communist regime neglect of history .
18 Here and there the way opened into glades , in one of which the woodmen had left the trunk of a once mighty beech .
19 An obvious ( if possibly fatuous ) answer is that , rather than wasting money on potentially unwanted presents , people have given cash , which the recipients have rushed out to spend on reduced-price merchandise .
20 By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive .
21 There may , and probably will , come a time when individual items in the accounts which the defendants have submitted will be the subject of an objection on which the court must adjudicate .
22 After a string of by-elections in which the Liberals had done badly — they always do better under the Tories , especially in the South — and in the wake of the Thorpe affair , the Liberals desperately needed respectability .
23 In the normal trading company , as we have seen , the members ' liability will be limited to the amount , if any , unpaid on their shares , but in a company limited by guarantee , it will be limited to the amount which the members have agreed to contribute to the assets in the event of liquidation .
24 What does remain to be done ( although in an ideal world it will already have been settled ) is to record the terms upon which the members have entered into their partnership , and ironically that will involve particular consideration of what is to happen when the partnership comes to an end .
25 He took her hand and gently kissed it , a theatrical gesture which Dalgliesh felt had taken her by surprise and which the others had watched with an unnaturally critical attention .
26 On April 27 , Labour would inform Britain 's European partners that it would sign the Social Charter and unblock directives on temporary and part-time work and parental leave , which the Conservatives had vetoed .
27 After several days of confusion over Labour 's plans over future privatisation , Mr Smith confirmed that an incoming Labour government will not have the benefit of an extra £9.5 billion which the Conservatives had planned to raise through the disposal of the Government 's remaining holdings in former public utilities .
28 He consulted a succession of popes on marriage law , on priestly mores , on ordinations , on liturgy , on whether nuns might wash each other 's feet , and on the eating of bacon fat , the last a subject about which the Fathers had remained curiously silent .
29 Anthony d'Offay is showing ‘ The New Democratic Pictures ’ of Gilbert & George , the most important group of new images which the artists have created since 1984 ( to 30 January ) .
30 His capture marked the culmination of a series of raids throughout Manila during which the authorities had seized 13 senior NPA figures since July 26 .
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