Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 2 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 3 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 4 | Sir Peter speaks frequently of ‘ power sharing , ’ a notion which goes well beyond mere participation in the local consultative groups established by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 5 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 6 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 7 | The restriction will also apply to related allowances — the additional personal allowance ( which goes mainly to single parents ) ; the widow 's bereavement allowance ( which is paid to a widow in the year of her husband 's death and in the following year ) ; and the relief for maintenance payments to a divorced or separated spouse . |
| 8 | There 's a depth here which goes far beyond pint-glass level and uncovers a songwriting strength which may become the big POD ace in the pack . |
| 9 | Again , Guérard gives a recipe for saddle of hare with hot beetroot which differs only in minor respects from the one Pomiane published two or three times and which I myself used often in the fifties , and eventually quoted , with acknowledgements , in French Provincial Cooking . |
| 10 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 11 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 12 | The council tax is a fair , balanced and carefully thought-out approach to local government finance which builds constructively on previous attempts at reform and takes full account of the consultations that my right hon. Friend initiated a year ago . |
| 13 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 14 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 15 | The second half of the chapter proposes that whole group work is a working method which develops out of small group work and gives greater coherence to it . |
| 16 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 17 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 18 | I am glad that my own children are beyond primary age and will not have to suffer from the effects of this campaign , which looks increasingly like political dogma forced into the classroom . |
| 19 | The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot 's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama . |
| 20 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 21 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 22 | South London Oi boys trade in their boots for a much more refined and punchy new direction which lies somewhere between second album Clash and late '70s punksters the Angelic Upstarts . |
| 23 | South London Oi boys trade in their boots for a much more refined and punchy new direction which lies somewhere between second album Clash and late '70s punksters the Angelic Upstarts . |
| 24 | The card is equipped with 1 megabyte of VideoRAM which allows up to 32,000 colours to be displayed . |
| 25 | We now have access to the Sierra RAMDAC on many graphics cards , which allows up to 32,000 colours on screen at any time , usually limited to a resolution of 800x600 , and , with the right technology , can actually provide up to 65,536 colours onscreen , albeit at the VGA resolution of 640x80 . |
| 26 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 27 | Ursodeoxycholic acid and certain other bile acids induce a ‘ hyper ’ choleresis in several species , including man , which results mainly from active secretion of HCO 3 - . |
| 28 | When deuterium replaces hydrogen in water we have what is known as ‘ heavy water ’ , which occurs naturally in small amounts in sea water . |
| 29 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
| 30 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |