Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the book there are illustrations of traffic calming scenes in which walkers stroll among the cars and bikes , whilst elsewhere they remain on pavements , protected by kerbs . |
| 2 | In Miami alone there are reported to be more than fifty botanicas — shops selling all the necessities of the cult — and there are also pet-shops specializing in the doves , chickens and peacocks which devotees require for the rituals . |
| 3 | But it has been developed by Perrow to apply to the actions which administrators perform on the objects of their decision-making . |
| 4 | The concept of the ‘ biographical career ’ is central to this approach as it allows consideration of the uniqueness of individual biographies , the meanings which individuals attach to the concepts of age and ageing , and how these change over time ( Johnson , 1978 ; Fairhurst and Lightup , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | The efficiency with which fluids pass through the rocks depends heavily on the interconnections , the spaces available in the pore throats and the sorting of the sediment . |
| 6 | The manner in which libraries deal with the theses in their custody thus has a bearing on the uses to which the research contained in these works is put . |
| 7 | He suggested that , in those species , males might compete among themselves to determine which males mate with the females , and the females might choose which males of the species they would mate with . |
| 8 | Nineteenth-century linguistics was mainly interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages ; modern ‘ structural ’ linguistics prefers , in contrast , to concentrate on the ways in which they function for purposes of communication . |
| 9 | Elsewhere I have argued that the whole fabric of a primary school curriculum in a socialist state like Tanzania will differ from that in a capitalist state like Kenya , for the different philosophies will affect not only selection of syllabus content but also languages of instruction , policy towards competition and examinations , links between school and community and above all the attitudes which teachers foster in the learners . |
| 10 | Another form of inauthenticity may occur when a person lives largely at the level of practical consciousness , in which routines defend against the anxieties which life itself engenders , and fresh desires are seldom asserted . |
| 11 | Is it unfair to wish for some appropriate visual counterpoint to Dixon 's video , to the precision and eloquence of — for example — Edward Pearce speaking of ‘ the men whose fingers itch from the things against which there are now no checks , and no restraints ’ ? |
| 12 | Sixthly , although a court may hesitate to order production by those not officers of the company whose administrators apply for the documents , there is no embargo in principle against ordering ‘ third parties ’ to produce documents . |
| 13 | You have been so successful as a branch manager that the company has promoted you to the position of regional manager in charge of twenty shops all of whose managers work under the conditions outlined in situation 3 above . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know a woman whose names begin with the letters L.L. ? ’ |
| 15 | But along comes a cabbage root fly , whose larvae feed on the roots . |
| 16 | Not so easily survivable , however , are the crude overridings of capable and honest scientists whose findings conflict with the preferences of their political bosses . |
| 17 | Ah , the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing ; ah , the fredonna tree whose roots grow at the tips of its branches , and whose fibres assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner ; ah , the opera house now overgrown by jungle . |
| 18 | Ostensibly , it is just one of numerous Hasidic sects , whose roots lie in the villages of eastern Europe . |
| 19 | What dangers lurk in the shadows of your dream ? |
| 20 | The solution would be a corollary to what lawyers see as the accountants ' distinct advantage of a more continuous and broader based role through the company audit . |