Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultation comes after a night during which calls from well wishers flooded the hospital switchboard , said a spokesman . |
| 2 | ‘ So I compromised by redesigning the base as a set of flat plates with circular holes cut in them through which sets of moulded hemispheres could be pushed . |
| 3 | He also pointed out the amendment in section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( effective from 1 October 1992 ) reducing the maximum term of imprisonment for theft from ten to seven years , thereby distinguishing theft from obtaining by deception , the maximum term for which remains at ten years . |
| 4 | Appearance is a concern , but what I see is conditioned by my preconceptions , attitudes and information , all of which influences in varying degrees my choice of working locations . |
| 5 | A wealth of legends and folk tales has been recorded , much of which relates to particular sites in the countryside . |
| 6 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 7 | CLUE is the only data base publishing product that I am aware of which runs on standard PCs . |
| 8 | Although Harris Adacom Corp is nominally the parent holding company , most research and development and manufacturing work continues in Israel , where there is a byzantine corporate structure consisting of Adacom Technologies Ltd , the holding company quoted on the Tel Aviv stock exchange , and six subsidiaries , each of which specialises in different areas of the business . |
| 9 | On average , people in their age group watch five hours of television daily , most of which consists of imported programmes . |
| 10 | Chemical seepage is starting to affect drinking water , 70 per cent of which comes from underground sources . |
| 11 | By contrast , the solid fuel merchant can afford to vary the content of what goes into pre-packed bags of household fuel , provided the weight is correct . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman does not seem to have the first idea of what happens at Social Affairs Councils . |
| 13 | An analogy with what happens in digital computers illustrates this point . |
| 14 | Comparison of the modal use of these two verbs with what occurs in affirmative contexts shows that when need and dare are positively asserted , the needing and daring are necessarily felt to represent before- positions relative to the infinitive 's event . |
| 15 | They walk into the corner of the TV set and you think they 've broken their skull , but they just bounce off ; next moment they sit down very gently on their bottoms which are padded with what looks like fifteen nappies and they burst into tears . |
| 16 | The idea of non-meanings as identical subjects of predication while implying the possibility of a framework within which references to such items can be contextually checked for truth , is not explicable in terms of any particular criteria of re-identification . |
| 17 | The empirical requirement is to seek , evaluate and make explicit the evidence upon which claims for particular ideas and practices advocated as policy are based . |
| 18 | There is , however , one type of depression in which shifts of daily rhythms are found more regularly — Seasonal Affective Disorder ( SAD ) . |
| 19 | One of the key themes of George Marchais , the leader of the French Communist Party , is , ‘ ‘ It will be different in France , ' ’ people say to us , ‘ ‘ but what you propose is quite different from what happens in socialist countries today . ' ’ |
| 20 | The cobblestones were soaked by streams of black blood over which swarms of fat flies hovered . |
| 21 | On the IBM 360 range restrictions are placed on which sets of consecutive bytes may be considered to form a word-oriented unit ; thus the left-hand byte of a half-word must be at an even address , that of a full-word must be at an address divisible by four , and so on . |
| 22 | Whilst the Civil Justice Review , as its recommendations are introduced , will produce considerable changes to the current High Court procedure in an effort to reduce delay , cost and complexity , the current procedure nevertheless provides an insight to what happens to civil actions prior to trial . |
| 23 | This is similar to what happens in British courts , but the APA is unimpressed . |
| 24 | All the churches have a strong regard for the preservation of tradition and they are still little affected by what happens in other churches . |