Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb base] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values . |
| 2 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 3 | The Commission have more recently proposed a Directive on establishing European works councils that provides for informing and consulting employees within certain sized undertakings which operate on a Community-wide scale [ see pp. 45–6 ] . |
| 4 | Blaise Pascal , of Pascal 's triangle , extended the theorem to : If a hexagon is inscribed in a circle , the pairs of opposite sides intersect , respectively , in three points which lie on a straight line . |
| 5 | In the past year the CGR has developed a number of new applications of transgenic and genome technology which focus on a small number of areas of interest . |