Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest . |
| 2 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 3 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 4 | Chesterton , a Stanhope who survived , found in fascism a positive political creed with which he could identify . |
| 5 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 6 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 7 | The endemic Hong Kong cascade frog has evolved suction pads on the end of each toe with which it can cling to the slippery rocks when the flash-floods strike . |
| 8 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 9 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 10 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 11 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 12 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 13 | Only the husk , the empty shell of what they 'd come for . |
| 14 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 15 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 16 | ‘ Accordingly , ’ said Miller , ‘ I propose to hold a press conference this afternoon at which I 'll reveal we 're dealing with a kidnap as well as a murder . ’ |
| 17 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 18 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 19 | What are the main obstacles in the way of people taking more control over their own health and health care and have we examples of this struggle from which we can all learn ? |
| 20 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
| 21 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 22 | However , where the theoretician can help managers is in providing some framework into which they can put their observations about goals . |
| 23 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 24 | Was there perhaps some route by which it could be circumvented ? |
| 25 | Dreaming of the future and rediscovering the feeling of past successes should have helped you work out some goals for yourself-what we will call a ‘ success image ’ . |
| 26 | But I do not think that there can be a rational , scientific criterion by which you can say : this is really the best . |
| 27 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 28 | That is exactly what has happened in Southampton where , in spite of all the professional advice , the Government committed an offence against the public purse for which they should still be held accountable . |
| 29 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 30 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |