Example sentences of "which have so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 2 | But if rationalism and empiricism have a tendency to blot out God , we must recognise that the Enlightenment 's supreme beguilement which has so bewitched modern men and women is a false understanding of human beings . |
| 3 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
| 4 | It is the level of the government 's ongoing commitment to honour the recommendations over pay and conditions of the Nurses ' and Midwives ' Pay Review Body ( PRB ) which has so incensed the professions . |
| 5 | The major adult course to appear this year will be Headway Elementary , the fifth and last of the OUP series which has so dominated the UK and European market for seven years . |
| 6 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 7 | I have this day received a letter from Dearest Mary about that which has so distressed me , your unbelievable decision to place Allegra in a convent — |
| 8 | It continued : " A people which has so enriched our common civilization is recovering its rightful place in Europe and in the world . " |
| 9 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 10 | In line with his overall political goal of proving that Labour was ‘ fit to govern ’ , Macdonald abandoned the visions of democratic diplomacy which had so excited him in 1917 and proceeded to adjust to the reality of a balance of power mediated through the League , helping to resolve the Ruhr crisis by lending his support to the rescheduling , rather than the abolition , of German reparations payments . |
| 11 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |
| 12 | Major Vine , thus unable to confirm or deny the sound which had so alarmed his Colonel , merely offered a bad-tempered scowl as a reply , so Colonel Ford looked past him to seek the opinion of the Captain of his light company . |
| 13 | Their heat and their demand , which had so aroused him moments before , unnerved him now . |
| 14 | With an average of 10,000 tennis playing members in his clubs alone , Lloyd has hit upon the formula which by its very success , is speedily replacing the ‘ traditional ’ tag which had so burdened the British tennis club over the years . |
| 15 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 16 | Also in contrast to the Nationalists , the internal differences which had so damaged the Republican camp prior to 1936 persisted even now , causing deep divisions between the Republican rank and file and their government , and between the political and trade union organizations of the Left . |
| 17 | She saw now that his tough appearance , which had so overwhelmed her five and a half years ago , had then been tempered by his youth . |
| 18 | ( When subsequently , the hospital became crowded almost to bursting point with the influx of evacuee patients from London , the master reported to the Guardians Committee that , owing to limited cooking facilities and greatly increased numbers , it had become necessary to suspend the existing dietary — which had so displeased Mr.J. — and adopt a more simplified bill of fare . ) |
| 19 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 20 | And then , for the first time in his place of birth , he read The Dry Salvages which opens with the Mississippi , the river which had so impressed his childish imagination . |
| 21 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 22 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 23 | Bryony spoke with the contemptuous sharpness which had so alienated Caro at the beginning . |
| 24 | John Major 's Val Doonican acts may have been adjudged less successful than the soapbox orations which have so cheered up both his party and himself . |
| 25 | In one direction lie the behaviour and attitudes , the short term planning and the easy options which have so bedevilled our performance in the past " ( Department of Employment 1989:19 ) . |
| 26 | As regards Probyn , the only one of the England pack not to make the party , the new laws , which have so reduced the number of scrums , were as harmful to his cause as his 37 years . |
| 27 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |