Example sentences of "which has [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Attention has also focused on British merger policy which has operated in a self-regulatory framework , rather than a statutory one .
2 Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) .
3 Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ?
4 But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste .
5 The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate .
6 A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births .
7 I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years .
8 The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere .
9 Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent .
10 A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right .
11 Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate .
12 Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’
13 Mr Appleby said : ‘ This is a long-established business with a reputation for quality workmanship which has suffered from a series of bad debts and disputed accounts . ’
14 This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since .
15 Second has been the revival of interest in neocatastrophism which has arisen as a concept which acknowledges the significance , and in some cases the dominance , of events of greater magnitude and low frequency .
16 I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry .
17 Thus in ( 191 ) , to feel evokes a new state of awareness which has arisen as a result of the combined effect on the reader 's mind of novels and tales previously selected for this purpose .
18 British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford .
19 Recently , some Zambian churches have combined to produce the weekly Zambia Mirror , which has met with a degree of success .
20 Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’
21 The local labour is mainly in small factories of 20–300 people which has led to a reputation for good relations between workers and managers .
22 The problem of childcare is aggravated by the high divorce rate ( over 60% in Moscow and 33% elsewhere ) which has led to a large number of single parent families .
23 However , the attempts to improve the position of the tenant have interfered with the market mechanism , which has led to a decline in the supply of accommodation on offer .
24 The organisation 's second point , as the chart shows , is that industry has been the unintended victim of high inflation , which has led to a significantly higher corporate tax take than the Lawson reforms of 1984 intended .
25 An employee package has been developed which has led to a large proportion of the authority 's employees being paid by automated direct credit through BACS .
26 The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed .
27 These policies have slashed manufacturing output and these policies have cut a massive two hundred and forty five million pound from the employment and youth training budgets for this year , which has led to a cut of eighty thousand places .
28 Some teachers in the county believe it 's this very concensus between Tories , Liberal Democrats and Labour which has led to a crisis in county education .
29 The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed .
30 Another little colony of the Blessed Ones which has turned into a hell-hole is to be found at Summerhill in Suffolk , where 70 years ago , the educational idealist A. S. Neill founded his progressive academy , known as the do-as-you-like school .
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