Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something primitive about babies which can fill parents with intense feelings of love and hate . |
| 2 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 3 | Emissions are measured on an open area test site which is free of objects which might reflect emitted signals . |
| 4 | An alternative view might posit some quality peculiar to literature which would justify the independent existence of literary studies , but this would reduce the scope of the object of study to a considerable degree , and result in the repetitive sifting of works in search of the one magic ingredient . |
| 5 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 6 | The use of an active filter media such as zeolite which will absorb the ammonia will also help . |
| 7 | Pupils can be guided to an item ( see Figure 5.1 ) such as SHIPS which will retrieve one record with a task relating to that specific theme and to one or two sources of information . |
| 8 | The maximum display resolution is 1024 x 768 with 256 colour , and the card comes with a disk containing the graphics drivers and some useful utilities such as XMODE which will allow you to emulate different video modes to suit the of software you are running . |
| 9 | Even with a change of name to senior citizen , the status of old age pensioner commands little power or prestige ( although in the 1980s some ‘ seniors ’ in the USA formed organizations such as AARP which could wield great power ) . |
| 10 | A class inter is also defined , for elements such as lists which can appear either within or between chunk elements . |
| 11 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 12 | Reorganisation of classes so that they contain children of more than one age range , changes in swimming or peripatetic music provision are typical of matters which can generate a great deal of heat . |
| 13 | THERE is a tremendous amount of movement in your chart for much of December which may indicate situations that once appeared irredeemably stuck now do a 180-degree shift . |
| 14 | I suspect he was in the Tower not because he could count the days but was privy to secrets which could rock thrones and topple crowns ! ’ |
| 15 | The sky was low and pregnant with rain which would fall as soon as the wind dropped . |
| 16 | It will not escape notice that , first , this question enquires about the verb and the adjective together , not the adjective alone ; and , second , this is precisely the form of question that can be used for a single , unmodified transitive verb : ( 9 ) Lionel shredded the memoranda what did Lionel do to the memoranda ? 5.2 For reasons which will become apparent , we shall call the adjectives in this structure adverbal adjectives . |
| 17 | Carron Phoenix , the Scottish sink manufacturer , is involved in talks which may produce a bid above the agreed 60p-a-share offer from Bene of France . |
| 18 | Caradon also refused to comment , but has already announced that it was involved in talks which could lead to a bid . |
| 19 | Little assembled a squad of 20 professionals , many on terms which would make Hartlepool blanch . |
| 20 | People were very impressed by horses which could canter on three legs , and even canter backwards ! |
| 21 | New systems and upgrades are planned around the next EV45 Alpha release due in September which will go to 250 SPECmarks89 . |
| 22 | New systems and upgrades are planned around the next EV45 Alpha release due in September which will go to 250 SPECmarks89 . |
| 23 | Indeed , let that be your percept : the hot blood gushes forth , yet instantly the Marine is firm as stone in his intellectus — aye , and spry as quicksilver which can flood through a maze of branching routes in a trice , illuminating all possibilities ! ’ |
| 24 | The power units would again be Paxmans , of later design than those of Venturous which would give her a speed of 15 knots . |
| 25 | The needs of the Iraqi people can be met by the release of $1.6 billion of oil which would finance the purchase of essential humanitarian supplies to relieve that suffering . |
| 26 | Other factors independent of diabetes which may elevate HDL levels in a particular patient include moderate alcohol intake ( Hulley et al , 1979 ) , exercise ( Hartung et al , 1980 ) , ethnic origin ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) and oestrogens ( Bradley et al , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | Within the year there was money made available for projects which could take the broad skills of a science like genetic manipulation and give them a saleable medical application . |
| 28 | While Guest was there he measured the flow rate and thickness of the lava outpouring — the kind of data which , he says , is essential for understanding what will happen when the flow is diverted into a side channel . |
| 29 | The recommendations in paragraph ten er ask you to approve the capital programme and the revenue budget and the staffing for the committee and that , that 's the increase of the one post I mean I referred to you earlier and if the committee approves this budget , will put forward to the Policy and Resources Committee on the thirty first of January which will consolidate the budgets for all the er services and make final decisions on how that 's to be and reset for the next . |
| 30 | Many western diplomats in Cairo believe that Mr Mubarak , though weakened , has weathered the worst and is capable of handling what could become a drawn-out war with Islamic extremists . |