Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day the newspapers are telling you what happens to other people 's children . |
| 2 | must in its pure form express unconditional allegiance to orthodoxy and autocracy ; everything which passes beyond these bounds represents the admixture of alien concepts , the play of fantasy , or a mask behind which the ill-intentioned try to ensnare inexperience and entice dreamers . |
| 3 | But if ideas are to fit the world there must be something which answers to that generality . |
| 4 | The feeling for structure — something which endures in Attic sculpture — is well illustrated by comparing a splendid head ( fig. 15 ) from an over life-size grave-statue in Athens with a Daedalic head , or with those of two contemporary large marbles made in a centre of Daedalic tradition ( fig. 16 ) . |
| 5 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 6 | I know that I am a thing made of metal and plastic , but also that I am something which lives inside that metal and plastic . |
| 7 | The tiger population may number some 500 or more , the largest surviving single population of the 7-8,000 in the world , and the only one which conforms to scientific calculations of the number required to retain the broad genetic base for natural evolution . |
| 8 | Fundamentally , the inventor ( or more usually , the employer of the inventor ) applies for a patent to the Patent Office in London , whether the inventor wants a United Kingdom patent or one which extends to other countries as well . |
| 9 | Bourdieu and Goldthorpe give us some preliminary insights into why a particularly dominant social group should engage in a postmodern way of life ; one which stems from social mobility , high incomes and which largely sets the pace for the remainder of the population . |
| 10 | They are a metalanguage , but one which exists in everyday language and is as useful for the foreign student as the native speaker . |
| 11 | As we have seen an algorithm which prunes at point B ( Fig. 9. 2 ) can produce very similar behaviour to one which orders at these points . |
| 12 | The standard to be met will be the same as the one which applies to heavy goods vehicles and buses , ie : |
| 13 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 14 | An unconditioned reflex is one which appears without previous experience ; for example , if food is placed in a dog 's mouth , it salivates . |
| 15 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 16 | There is , moreover , a specially paradoxical version of it which arises from certain cases in which not only does extra conceptual content have to be introduced to characterize the human prohibition , but also the introduction of that content stands in conflict with the proposed biological explanation of it . |
| 17 | Often long after a release , a reappearance or the commutation of a death sentence , information reaches us which shows in more detail the impact of your appeals . |
| 18 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |