Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) .
2 It is the profusion of flowers which make the first impression on visitors although fruit and vegetables are grown as well .
3 Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates .
4 But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year .
5 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
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