Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dot location task , which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected . |
| 2 | The climb , which tackles directly the steep rock buttresses of the Croz Spur , is undoubtedly an important addition to modern extreme alpinism in the range . |
| 3 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 4 | It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain . |
| 5 | The leading share service offered by the high street banks is Barclayshare , which offers both an execution-only facility and a portfolio management service . |
| 6 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 7 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 8 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 9 | And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy . |
| 10 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) A registered club may apply to the sheriff for any one of the following orders : ( a ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on weekdays shall not be those set out in section 53(3) of this Act , but shall instead be the period between eleven in the morning and two in the afternoon and the period between four and half-past ten in the evening or alternatively be the said periods on weekdays other than Saturday , and on Saturday be the period between one in the afternoon and half-past ten in the evening ; or ( b ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on Sundays shall not be those set out in the said section 53(3) , but shall instead be the period between half-past twelve and two in the afternoon and the period between four and nine in the evening ; or ( c ) an order which contains both the aforesaid provisions ; and the sheriff shall , if in his opinion the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) below are satisfied , make the order applied for . |
| 12 | In part this change of attitude has been caused by an awareness that the earliest manuscript of the Histories , which contains only an abridged version of the first six books , does not reflect Gregory 's own intentions . |
| 13 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 14 | We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the ‘ essential ’ viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions . |
| 15 | The park is part of a large complex which has just a single access onto the busy main road . |
| 16 | Main Picture : The grand piano lends a dramatic air to the dining room which has quite a modern look with its black chairs and stark glass table . |
| 17 | That is to say , the order of a language is determined in some domain that transcends the language , rather than within the language itself , which has only a symbolic relationship with the domain in question . |
| 18 | A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction but remains chemically unchanged at the end of that reaction . |
| 19 | The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities , scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets . |
| 20 | However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range . |
| 21 | After the Edinburgh Summit the exhibition , which features both the new works and existing pieces from the collection , is at London 's Barbican Centre from December 26 until January 17 . |
| 22 | A series of leaflets is available which describes how the various services which are available can be used . |
| 23 | Lord Oliver described proximity as ‘ no more than a label which embraces not a definable concept but merely a description of circumstances from which , pragmatically , the courts conclude that a duty of care exists ’ . |
| 24 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 25 | This is why the distal ring noted by some authors is only a mucosal stricture , which marks only the mucosal junction and not the true muscular oesophagogastric junction as observed by Reinaldo and Gahagan. and Harris . |
| 26 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 27 | We therefore measured regional cerebral blood flow , an index of neuronal activity , in volunteers performing a task engaging both components of the articulatory loop ( short-term memory for letters ) and a task which engages only the subvocal rehearsal system ( rhyming judgement for letters ) . |
| 28 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 29 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 30 | Stencil , in short , pursues a quest the absurdity of which rules out the modernist option of structuring by myth . |