Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species involved are characteristically tall perennial monocots which tend to form pure stands on the edge of water bodies . |
| 2 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 3 | The summer breeding season extends between November and February , so we would have to come back again earlier in the season to have a look at some of the other birds , such as the smaller land birds , which tend to present more problems to the photographer . |
| 4 | There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s . |
| 5 | Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure . |
| 6 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 7 | Those European countries which appear to place greater emphasis upon long-stay hospital care are those , such as Spain or Greece , which are currently developing their social welfare provision from a comparatively low base ( Anderson , 1992 ) . |
| 8 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 9 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 10 | In the past , the courts have often been hostile to exclusion clauses , particularly those drawn in wide terms which seek to negate all liabilities of the party relying on the clause . |
| 11 | At international level , the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborate to produce various recommendations which seek to establish worldwide standards of safety with the purpose of preventing avoidable accidents at work . |
| 12 | New tillage practices are encouraged which seek to increase vegetative protection of the soil and reduce the effects of wind erosion and direct splashing of rain on the soil . |
| 13 | And way above it all , on top of a nearby mountain , are the anti-aircraft guns which seem to provide scant protection for these 4,000 students . |
| 14 | But there are some phonetic sequences which seem to have semantic value of a sort , yet they do not correspond to grammatical elements : there seems to be a direct pathway from sound to meaning , bypassing grammar . |
| 15 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 16 | The exhibition 's wider context is an informal series of other surveys which have investigated the leading masters of Dada and Surrealism , movements which continue to exercise considerable influence upon the direction of contemporary art in New York . |
| 17 | Experimental investigations embrace a range of approaches which include field plot experiments , through laboratory hardware models which attempt to use scaled-down versions of the real world , to analogue models which employ a different medium for investigation . |
| 18 | ‘ American art in the twentieth century ’ , the fourth in a series of exhibitions which attempt to define national schools of modern and contemporary art , opens in Berlin next month . |
| 19 | Thus , many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons . |
| 20 | In the liver , larvae cause focal haemorrhages and eosinophilic tracts which resolve leaving whitish areas of fibrosis . |
| 21 | They are carried out by United Kingdom-based staff , who go overseas on short-term assignments which aim to generate effective techniques of mineral , energy and groundwater resource exploration and development that are applicable to and will find general use in Third World countries . |
| 22 | The paper serves to illustrate some of the fundamental problems that may be encountered by organisations which aim to introduce new technology to developing countries , in spite of the fact that the technology in question is aimed at improving the quality of life of the inhabitants . |
| 23 | All too often , as the experience of many mature applications indicates , technical and data-related matters dominate the system development phase and technically elegant solutions are devised which fail to take enough account of user needs and capabilities . |
| 24 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 25 | Even fashion products such as nail polish or lipstick , which do have regular changes of colour , can benefit greatly . |
| 26 | Uzuncarsili has published a kanun containing a detailed listing of the mevleviyet kadiliks and the ranks of medreses and showing the possible promotions within and between the two , facts which help to define this generalization to some degree . |
| 27 | There are several factors which help to prolong this period to perhaps three or four times that in the male . |
| 28 | In recent years there have been a number of wide ranging official reviews of most aspects of UK competition policy , which have involved widespread consultations with academia , business and other interested parties . |
| 29 | It is here , as much as in psychology , that woman-centred theories of subjectivity are articulated ; for woman-centred theories look like humanist psychological theories which have redefined human potential as feminine potential . |
| 30 | Authors may present additional copies of theses to external co-sponsoring bodies , or to bodies which have rendered substantial assistance with some aspect of the research . |