Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The precautionary approach to development in areas which may become candidates for managed retreat in the future is most welcome . |
| 2 | GAMTA sees the fifty per cent increase — ‘ horrendous though it is ’ — as only the thin end of a very thick wedge which could spell ruin for many small AOC operators in the UK , already suffering the effects of recession and higher regulatory charges than their European counterparts . |
| 3 | Here again there are local choices to be made , one option is the creation of new villages or larger settlements which could offer opportunities for high quality design , and also relieve pressures on existing towns and villages . |
| 4 | What has been set out in these pages is a programme which could change Britain for good . |
| 5 | Fifth , for historical reasons , whoever controlled Thessaly controlled the Delphic Amphictyony , an international committee which could impose fines for religious offences , usually trumped up , and generally exert a practical moral ascendancy of an enjoyable kind over the Greek community . |
| 6 | But the idea of founding fixed royal chapels in strategic places which could provide incomes for royal chaplains was already formed . |
| 7 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 8 | But this approach seems unnecessarily rigid in cases where the matters which would give grounds for judicial review could also be resolved by the alternative process . |
| 9 | Among the various trade and co-operation agreements signed in 1990 , the most important were ( i ) an agreement signed with the United States on April 9 which granted Czechoslovakia most-favoured-nation status , thereby reducing tariff levels for Czechoslovak exports to the United States ; and ( ii ) a 10-year agreement with the EC signed on March 23 which would eliminate quotas for Czechoslovak industrial exports to the EC by 1995 and facilitate the transfer of EC expertise to many sectors of the Czechoslovak economy . |
| 10 | This proposes a Scottish parliament with very limited tax-raising powers , which would have responsibility for all matters now administratively devolved to the Scottish Office , and for ‘ industrial development ’ , though nobody knows just what this means . |
| 11 | The ball raised approximately £40,000 for the Time Walker Education Endowment Fund , which will provide education for future generations so that they understand the vital importance of conservation . |
| 12 | The investment by Glaxo is for part of a new research site , due to open in 1995 , which will provide facilities for 1,500 staff including more than 1,000 scientists . |
| 13 | For the moment , we shall limit our discussion of this question to those features which relate directly to the deictic context , those features which will permit interpretation for deictic expressions like the temporal expression now , the spatial expression here , and the first person expression I. Are there standard procedures for determining what information is relevant to the interpretation of these expressions ? |
| 14 | THE new Sussex Downs Conservation Board , which will have responsibilities for 600 square miles of countryside in West and East Sussex , met for the first time last week and elected Baroness Cumberlege as chairman . |
| 15 | Indeed , some educational theorists have claimed that , by comparison with many ( particularly lower-class ) homes , schools provide a much richer language environment , which can provide compensation for earlier linguistic deprivation . |
| 16 | Often the light is too bright , which can cause difficulties for all children . |