Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 2 | Both pavements have examples of a four-petalled flower " with long , broad leaves which curve to a fine tip , ( pls. 1 and 5b ) . |
| 3 | This states that when two elements A and B combine to form more than one compound , the weights of A which combine with a fixed weight of B are in the proportion of small whole numbers . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 5 | First , those firms with in-house architects , which insist on a standard formula without consideration of local conditions . |
| 6 | However , only those which deviate to a lesser extent can be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 7 | Although it is the traditional culture which continues to manage the western world , Snow argued , only science can feed that world , create wealth , provide hope for the poor and the sick , and forge the essential links between intellect and practicality which make for a proper wisdom and awareness of moral and social issues . |
| 8 | " The old , old fashion " and " the older fashion yet " are the culmination of a chain of verbal echoes which begin , in Chapter 8 , with the mention of Paul 's having " a strange , old-fashioned , thoughtful way " , and which develop from a whimsical sign of his premature aging to a portent of his premature death . |
| 9 | The lower slopes , which descend at a lesser incline to a height of 110 metres , also produce fine wines , although not quite the same exalted standard as the rest of this village . |
| 10 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 11 | In the new scheme , worldwide sales are divided into three regions each of which report to a new vice-president of worldwide sales . |
| 12 | ( iii ) Limitation of liability.It has been said that the courts tend to view clauses which limit liability more favourably than those which provide for a total exclusion . |
| 13 | The increase in coagulation that results from adding specific lipid mixtures to plasma indicates that a number of haemostatic components has evolved which interact with a lipid-water interface of very restricted specificity . |
| 14 | An example would be the mid-Victorian ‘ song synthesis ’ which spread across a wide spectrum of musical types , from operetta and parlour ballad to music hall and pub singing , displaying variants within a broad congruence of musical code . |
| 15 | She ran through the woods and only stopped when she reached the fence between the woods and the Botanical Gardens , which spread for a great distance along one side . |
| 16 | The contracts which range from a new honey processing plant for Nestl in Manchester and a factory development for Bradford Soap Works in Chesterare spread throughout the North West , Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Methods which make use of a combination of sensory inputs are likely to be more effective than those which relay on a single channel of communication . |
| 18 | The lungs , larynx , throat and mouth , which act as a resonating chamber , are no longer aligned . |
| 19 | Foltene is a deep conditioning programme containing natural biological substances normally present in the body which act as a natural scalp stimulant to revitalise blood flow to the hair follicles . |
| 20 | They only cover up the ‘ caveman ’ body smells which act as a natural stimulant , says chemist Dr David Kelly . |
| 21 | We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values . |
| 22 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 23 | In the past year the CGR has developed a number of new applications of transgenic and genome technology which focus on a small number of areas of interest . |
| 24 | The more micro-based studies , which focus on a particular expenditure programme or transfer policy , often offer a more tractable research problem , but these are inevitably open to the criticism that they are very partial in nature , giving no real insight into whether government intervention is narrowing or widening the extent of overall economic inequality ( assuming we can agree how to measure it ! ) . |
| 25 | Vaccines which consist of a small part of the virus , such as the envelope or core proteins , are being tested in animals and humans but may not be as effective as the whole virus . |
| 26 | So far we have only considered pattern masks which consist of a random jumble of fragments of letters . |
| 27 | Blaise Pascal , of Pascal 's triangle , extended the theorem to : If a hexagon is inscribed in a circle , the pairs of opposite sides intersect , respectively , in three points which lie on a straight line . |
| 28 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 29 | Parallel processing and object-oriented programming are the waves of the future , and so Object Databases Inc , the US arm of Saint Quentin en Yvelines , France-based 's Intellitic International SA , is in a mood to celebrate following the news that it has been invited to implement its Matisse object-oriented database for Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kendall Square Research Inc 's KSR/1 family of general-purpose highly parallel systems , which run under a parallel version of OSF/1 ( CI No 2,162 ) . |
| 30 | Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy . |