Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 .
2 The book comprises five chapters and a Postscript which are bound into a cohesive whole with the aid of the image of an intercontinental flight that functions " as a sustaining narrative device " ( p. xii ) .
3 + is used to join the notation of two subjects which are commonly associated with one another , but which are separated by the normal sequence in UDC .
4 Awards which are developed on a national basis and meet the criteria outlined below will be designated as NATIONAL AWARDS .
5 A distinction is made between temporary versions of an entry , which will have a short life-span in the Working-Set , and permanent versions of an entry which are transferred to the Main Database .
6 This is all the more true because of a trend towards bigger finance houses , which are chewing into a shrinking cake .
7 Prominent in the worldwide development of wind power , WEG is currently working on a range of advanced wind turbine designs — from 300 kW to multi-megawatt size — which are supported by a comprehensive R&D programme that includes work on aerodynamics , fatigue , adaptive control systems , transmission and materials testing .
8 This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries .
9 They are unaffected by the weight attendant to luxurious living quarters which are built to the highest standards .
10 Works which are built within the contextual frame of governmental , corporate , educational and religious institutions run the risk of being read as tokens of those institutions .
11 ‘ The presentations of new language are lively and there is plenty of practice work in both the Classbook and the Resource Book , which are packed with a wide variety of useful and stimulating material . ’
12 In addition to discussion of management problems , these sessions can be used to tackle some of the tensions and frustrations that can arise in teams of this kind , which are dealing with a rapid turnover of patients with acute problems , or problems that sometimes seem intractable , and where drop-out rates may be high .
13 All of the entries contain details of location , times of opening , admission prices , some of which are illustrated with a small map showing the exact location of the facilities , which when in a strange land will prove to be very helpful .
14 Each topic introduces a maximum of 15 new words which are listed in a clear alphabetical index at the back of the dictionary .
15 2.1.2 " Building documents " means the plans drawings specifications and other documents relating to the Works which are listed in the third Schedule The tenant should have sight of these as soon as possible to ensure that they are in accordance with its understanding of what has been agreed .
16 Cocaine is traded openly in the favelas , which are ruled by the semi-fascist authorities of drug dealers .
17 Various explanations have been offered as to how they function but attachment probably depends on the fact that the structures concerned are covered with tubular tenent hairs , the apices of which are moistened by a glandular secretion ( Fig. 23 ) .
18 They 've just taken delivery of a whole load of high quality datarec 's , which are retailing at the standard price of just £29.99 .
19 These monopolies are jealously guarded : the Law Society has prosecuted unqualified individuals for performing services which are defined as a legal monopoly of the law profession .
20 standing committees which are formed for a particular purpose on a permanent basis .
21 We shall postpone until Chapter 3 the task of setting out the full array of intensional patterns which are expressed in the syntactic structures involving English adjectives .
22 There is a set of genes involved in patterning the embryo , the homeobox genes ( Chapter 7 ) , which are expressed in the developing limb buds in just the Way that would suggest that they may encode positional information .
23 Alternative splicing of the messenger RNA generates an array of putative membrane-attached , intracellular and secreted signalling proteins , at least some of which are expressed in the developing spinal cord and brain .
24 The simplest adequate interpretation of the evidence suggests that a driving circadian oscillator in the optic lobe is coupled electrically to the leg muscles via the protocerebrum , nerve cord connectives and thoracic ganglia , the whole system being modulated by sensory inputs which are integrated with the circadian oscillator output in the corpora pedunculata .
25 The range of software products includes conveyancing and fee-earner support systems , investment management , debt recovery and a client and contact database , all of which are integrated to a powerful report generator .
26 The most prominent orienting devices remain the symbolically defined frames of reference of social roles , which are integrated by the constant process of the individual 's or the group 's construction of his own identity in the context of the world as he or they know it .
27 The Landsat satellites , which are operated by the American Eosat company , have an orbital altitude of 705 km and their sensors have a narrower field of view which covers the area within 92.5 km of their suborbital tracks .
28 Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago .
29 In the psychoanalytic school , there is the notion of the ‘ component instincts ’ which are unified in the complex process of acculturation , though the issue is complicated by a transhistorical concept of the Oedipus complex which , it is argued , is basic to all culture , or in Juliet Mitchell 's version , patriarchal culture .
30 The ‘ collegiate ’ quality of the three-level dwellings which are sited in the topmost section of the nave and which are reached via integral winding staircases is particularly delightful .
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