Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eggs laid by the root form which hatch in the late autumn , turn into larvae which hibernate in the roots , not emerging until the spring temperatures rise above 10°C the following year , when they attain maturity . |
| 2 | Secondly , this sector is highly competitive , there is a complete absence of the monopolies which predominate in the formal sector . |
| 3 | The nearest you get to this is the thrilling moment at the end of Act One when , as though he had engendered them , the thunder and lightning which usher in the next act and a complete change of country , melodramatically erupt during Iago 's concluding lines . |
| 4 | These are SOURCE , PMODEL or FOREIGN modules which appear in the primary directory but which are not contained within any user-package . |
| 5 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 6 | These are followed by documents relating to the SI in Britain which include Ralph Rumney 's Psychogeographic Map of Venice ( 1957 ) , and brief statements by Michèle Bernstein which appear in the British press in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 7 | The Echo 's CD-Rom covers most item which appear in The Northern Echo , national and international articles aswell as a comprehensive coverage of the region . |
| 8 | An oil refinery at Llandarcy ( Swansea ) was started when smaller tankers were used than the modern supertankers which dock in the deeper water of the ria , or drowned valley , of Milford Haven . |
| 9 | Typical layout of a rabbit warren , showing the entrances , bolt-holes and dead-ends , all of which figure in the ferreting technique . |
| 10 | It would appear that , with the numerous methods of preserving food which abound in the Western World and the food industry 's obsession for pristine packaging , food poisoning would be a thing of the past . |
| 11 | Freddie fiddles with his dry biscuit , breaking it into small pieces , and dropping crumbs which catch in the hairy surface of his trousers . |
| 12 | Darren explained : ‘ They have graphite shafts which react in the same way as steel , but when you strike the ball they absorb the vibration . |
| 13 | Apis mellifera ( the common bee ) has to have a convention as to which angle in the vertical plane corresponds to this latter angle . |
| 14 | Problems in pronouncing the sounds of a new language generally fall into the following categories : a. unfamiliar sounds b. familiar sounds in unfamiliar positions c. familiar sounds in unfamiliar combinations d. sounds which are similar to your own but not identical e. pairs of familiar sounds which contrast in the new language but not in your own f. familiar phonemes but with a different set of variants , or familiar variants in unfamiliar environments g. different transition and juncture features between sounds h. different morphophonemic changes when two sounds come together at morpheme or word boundaries . |
| 15 | Since the owners of capital have always had , and continue to have , the ear of government it is their views which prevail in the legislative sphere . |
| 16 | Hoccleve is distressed by the corruptions of the time ( which recur in the main work as well as here ) . |
| 17 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 18 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |
| 19 | Siple , Brewer and Caccamise ( 1980 ) present results which point in the same direction . |
| 20 | The above provisions are those which apply in the normal case . |
| 21 | Together the molecular and anatomical alterations indicate that retinoic acid has induced changes in the hindbrain Hox code which result in the homeotic transformation of rhombomeres ( r ) 2/3 to an r4/5 identity . |
| 22 | Each spherulite grows radially from a nucleus formed either by the density fluctuations which result in the initial chain ordering process or from an impurity in the system . |
| 23 | The colour pigments which result in the bright colouration of your goldfish can not be manufactured inside the fish 's body . |
| 24 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 25 | The above list is by no means exhaustive , but it covers most of the matrix types which arise in the present text . |
| 26 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 27 | Water and carbon dioxide are the two starting materials from which green plants manufacture the sugars which are themselves further elaborated by plant and animal cells into the incredible array of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules which exist in the natural world . |
| 28 | Their success is due to a plague of rats , which thrive in the burgeoning oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ) plantations of the Peninsular . |
| 29 | Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids . |
| 30 | More angular and less fluid in outline than those which feature in the final version of ‘ La Danse ’ , the figures are painted in predominantly grey-blue tones against an unfinished blue background . |