Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will also receive a £2.2 million advance for every film in which she acts plus another Pounds 500,000 for each one she produces . |
| 2 | This meant she could continue to level her basilisk stare ( the one which she reserves for special enemies ) at selected MPs . |
| 3 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 4 | She is now settled in to her new home , which she shares with another Rottie and a German Shepherd . |
| 5 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 6 | He shows his annoyance with some intimidating facial expression , backed up by a sparse selection of adjectival punctuation invariably using the ‘ f ’ word , which he uses with considerable effect . |
| 7 | Gironella 's subject matter is the acclaimed artistic masterpieces of the Spanish past which he reworks in various ways , most dramatically into ironic altars assembled from a variety of painted , sculpted and ready-made elements ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 9 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 10 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 11 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 12 | We shall consider the two studies which he reports in most detail , and which were most systematically carried out : a sentence completion study ( Piaget , 1928 ) , and a series of studies in which an adult interviewed children about causal phenomena ( Piaget , 1929 , 1930 ) . |
| 13 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 14 | The lawyer advocates formal legal propositions which he supports with reasoned arguments . |
| 15 | From which he accounts for 2 pipes of wine bought at Canterbury from Preston , 1 pipe at London , 1 tun at Canterbury by J. Boteler , 3 tuns at Sandwicum , 1 other tun at Canterbury and for the carriage of the same , £41 12s.2d . |
| 16 | A Partner-in-Residence shared between Christian Aid Scotland and the Church of Scotland , he is on secondment from the Zimbabwe Council of Churches which he serves as Senior Development Officer . |
| 17 | His article is particularly valuable for the evidence which he adduces from contemporary documents , some of which is of considerable importance in helping to determine the facts of Molla Fenari 's life ; but much of what he says is , as will be shown , based on so little genuine historical evidence ( insofar as this can be judged from the sources he quotes ) and appears so speculative that it must be treated with some caution . |
| 18 | Colleagues think he is ideal for the new job , because of the ease with which he communicates with different people and his breadth of vision . |
| 19 | Locke 's distinction between the real and nominal essence of substances , and the way in which the corpuscular hypothesis figures in his conception of the world , which he shares with other anti-scholastics of the time , is brought out nicely by his analogy of the Strasburg Cathedral clock . |
| 20 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 21 | It was through EP that Roy got involved in a project centred on upward feedback , a subject which he finds of great interest . |
| 22 | One is a rickshaw , which he hires for four rupees a day . |
| 23 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 24 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 25 | He has six business suits , which he wears in daily rotation . |
| 26 | Which it does for several years . |
| 27 | Helicobacter pylori infection increases the serum concentration of gastrin , and this may be one of the mechanisms by which it predisposes to duodenal ulceration . |
| 28 | But it has other weapons which it deploys with some skill . |
| 29 | The knowledge which it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 30 | The respect in which it lags behind competing products — recent versions of 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro — is in its printing and presentation facilities — often referred to as ‘ spreadsheet publishing ’ . |