Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State .
2 A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun .
3 Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians .
4 Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ .
5 I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off .
6 My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage .
7 On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth .
8 I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July .
9 The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole .
10 They were also subject to the English Parliament , which put them on a different footing from the King 's Scots or Irish subjects , who had Parliaments of their own that were not subordinate to the Westminster Parliament in the way that the Virginia assembly was .
11 But the second period began with a bang for the CMS side and a quick treble which put them in a commanding position .
12 Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis .
13 By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right .
14 Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time .
15 I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image .
16 Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class .
17 Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp .
18 I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it .
19 In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) .
20 I have yet to see much validation of this support women give each other , especially in working-class communities , which recognise it as a political affiliation , a movement .
21 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
22 The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny .
23 This raises another spectre : as palladium is the key , what power brokerage will it give the countries which have it as a natural mineral resource — USSR and South Africa ?
24 Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible .
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