Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , there has been ready consumer acceptance of two types of credit which have tended to be seen as quite different .
2 In general , when they do use credit they are more likely than others to use types carrying a high rate of charge , though they are also relatively heavy users of mail order ( which carries no rate of charge for credit , though at the cost of prices which have tended to be higher than shop prices ) .
3 Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination .
4 This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties .
5 I have seen several foals which have had to be reared on the bottle having been completely rejected by their mother .
6 This compares , he says , to only 12 applications that will definitely run on all Sparc-based systems , all of which have had to be tested and tweaked for each individual system .
7 Staff absences actually refer in the main , to er , unfortunate situation of a number of staff this year , who have er , been suspended , er , because of er , various matters , er , which have had to be worked through .
8 topics which have ceased to be the subject of new literature to be deleted from the scheme at an appropriate moment .
9 However , companies which have ceased to be private client favourites include Tarmac , British Petroleum , Lonrho , Trafalgar House and Fisons .
10 There are in London , for example , Cantonese , Ethiopian , Portuguese and Spanish congregations which have come into being through church planting by a strong congregation from one of the denominations .
11 Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation .
12 How does theology stand vis-à-vis other disciplines , such as the natural sciences , which have come to be so important and successful with the passing centuries ?
13 One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard .
14 What has become a matter of concern is that as society becomes more complex , and as the common coin of politics moves away from socialism — and indeed social democracy — it becomes important to preserve and develop those rights which have come to be considered fundamental .
15 In the period of transition that historians call the Axial Age ( 800–200 BCE ) , the great confessional faiths developed which have continued to be a crucial influence in the consciousness of the people of each region : in China Lao Tsu developed Taoism , in India , Hinduism and Buddhism reformed the primitive pagan vision and made it a means of analysing the self ; in the Middle East the monotheistic faiths analysed history and the Greek rationalists of Athens analysed the cosmos to find an ultimate meaning and significance in the apparently random flux of life .
16 The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s .
17 In this range of senses , we find forms of association of artists which have continued to be important .
18 If we want to know in precisely what circumstances such a gene would increase in frequency , we have to carry out calculations which have proved to be full of pitfalls for the unwary .
19 Despite these changes , some of which have proved to be environmentally degrading , there is still a food crisis because population growth is rapid ( 2–3 per cent per annum ) and farming systems are failing to provide the necessary increase in productivity of c. 4 per cent per annum ( Okigbo 1985 ) .
20 In a previous issue , Guitarist ran an article on callisthenics , in which I invited readers to submit exercises which have proved to be particularly useful .
21 Pieces which have proved to be of enduring worth have passed from special conference song books into collections with a wider circulation .
22 However , the Commerce and Industry Group of the Law Society does offer a range of lectures and meetings which have proved to be useful .
23 His research focused on poly-crystalline diamond compact ( PDC ) drill bits , which have proved to be the most cost effective for the deep , interbedded Colombian wells .
24 I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) .
25 It combines , therefore , what have come to be known as structure and conjoncture , the permanent and the ephemeral , the slow moving and the fast . ’
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