Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 8 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot 's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama . |
| 16 | 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 - . |
| 17 | When deuterium replaces hydrogen in water we have what is known as ‘ heavy water ’ , which occurs naturally in small amounts in sea water . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She is an accomplished horsewoman , a skill which ranks highly in aristocratic circles but one in which Diana is lacking . |
| 20 | Although the American Anthropological Association 's statement on ethics is of some relevance to sociolinguists and is easily accessible as an appendix to a book which deals specifically with ethical problems in fieldwork ( Rynkiewich and Spradley 1971 ) , linguists do not in general have recourse to a widely accepted ethical code . |
| 21 | ‘ In March 1991 we acquired FPC International which concentrates exclusively on corporate finance documents . |
| 22 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 23 | It is intended that a teacher choose and teach a topic which leads up to formal rule or formula . |
| 24 | About 100 yds after passing confluence of streams cross right-hand path to river where safe , and ascend a few yards to reach well-defined path which leads parallel to right-hand stream , following it up to its source . |
| 25 | On our sail he pressure difference causes a driving force which acts roughly at right angles to the sail at its centre of effort . |
| 26 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 27 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 28 | The next stage of the work , says Dainty , is to eliminate a layer phenomenon called ionic motion , which shows up as slight hysteresis in the capacitance/voltage plot of the layer . |
| 29 | She says : ‘ We all have an electric force field surrounding us — an aura — which shows up with Kirlian photography . |
| 30 | This is an unusual-looking plant which grows well with strong illumination . |