Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are surely witnessing is the effect on these people of the ‘ divinity which doth hedge a king ’ , which may be translated more prosaically as the persistent flattery and adulation with which kings were treated — and in France , it seems , not only kings , but their children . |
| 2 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 3 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 4 | Themis describes various rain-making rites , including a Christianized one which involves entreating ‘ S. John Baptist to baptize the Holy Child ’ . |
| 5 | I teach materials science to dental students which involves using chemical names . |
| 6 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 7 | There are various types of mutilation : 1 ) Circumcision Proper which involves removing the hood around the clitoris . |
| 8 | A major transport contractor was asked to quote for carrying out the work , which involves delivering huge wing boxes to Manchester Airport for collection by Super Guppy air transporters . |
| 9 | finally , the node information can be perturbed only once , which involves creating a node table into which the perturbed nodes are stored as they are read in , and from which they can be retrieved in later references to the same node . |
| 10 | Old-style publishing was based around retail sheet-music sales , but current publishing is a banking operation which involves taking a risk on an artist . |
| 11 | There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started . |
| 12 | Comparing two spectra , which involves taking into account band shapes and intensities as well as frequencies , is one of the tasks the human eye/brain seems to do rather well . |
| 13 | He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark . |
| 14 | The deal , which involves sharing the costs of catering and maintenance at both Zaventem airport in Brussels and Paris , is attractive because it gives access to slots at Brussels airport , seen as a future hub for travel to 70 cities around Europe . |
| 15 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 16 | There is , however , one universal habit which involves tightening the neck muscles and this will invariably interfere with the Primary Control and , subsequently , with all the other muscles and reflexes in the body . |
| 17 | Healers use their own crystals to treat other people , and may practise a form of crystal ‘ massage ’ , which involves holding the crystal two inches above the patient and rotating it in small clockwise circles over the entire body surface . |
| 18 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Metropolitan police launched such a campaign on9 December , which involves providing specially adapted bins near police stations where people can deposit knives . |
| 19 | It is an iterative process which involves trawling through the design space of possible configurations until the optimal solution is found . |
| 20 | A technique used in some Chinese rugs which involves inserting the pile through a canvas or duck backing with the aid of a " tufting gun " . |
| 21 | Barbados , which involves dialling 14 digits , costs 79p a minute standard rate . |
| 22 | Skiing adventurers have taken to heli-skiing which involves learning to operate an electronic transmitter in case of avalanches . |
| 23 | Nor would the captain 's off-field obligations cause Hastings concern , for his work with the Carnegie Partnership carries a PR type of role , part of which involves meeting people and dealing with clients and the media as well as assisting his old school , Watson 's College , and his club , Watsonians , in a business capacity . |
| 24 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 25 | Early feedback from bankers at the 90-minute City meeting is that the plan , which involves splitting debt into two categories , was ‘ greeted respectfully ’ . |
| 26 | At worst , they will be a cumbersome and bureaucratic nightmare which involves sending patients to distant , low-priced hospitals . |
| 27 | As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future . |
| 28 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 29 | Either through work which involves training the imagination ( in the sense of being an ‘ image-making ’ faculty ) or spontaneously , a woman may have an intimation of a female guide , a feminine presence that watches over her life . |
| 30 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |