Example sentences of "[Wh det] do [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem , which did not affect domestic subscribers , would be considerably reduced by the end of this year . |
| 2 | The substance upon which Longivex was based was scarce — located so far on only two worlds of the surveyed systems — and it had proved impossible to manufacture a synthetic substitute which did not possess deadly side effects . |
| 3 | They dealt with cases which did not involve statutory tenants . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the proportion for whom payment was thought to have been something of a problem was 7 per cent of all those in old people 's homes ( 15 per cent for private ones , 6 per cent for others ) and 17 per cent of those in nursing homes — further differences which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 5 | Among those in residential homes the frequency with which bad temper was reported was 31 per cent when the respondent was a relative , friend or neighbour , 45 per cent when he or she was a staff member — a difference which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 6 | Initial alkaline phosphatase concentration showed a weak inverse correlation with survival ( r=-0.3 ) which did not reach statistical significance ; a rising titre after diagnosis may predict a poorer prognosis but numbers are small . |
| 7 | Some girl who would never need to make such explanations , some girl who had been bred in a world which did not admit such dresses . |
| 8 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 9 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 10 | The Congress soon found its desire to implement a return , regardless of political considerations , opposed not only by Israel but by the Arab states , and even the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee itself , which did not welcome this challenge to their authority in the management of negotiations with the enemy . |
| 11 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 12 | Barr stated , however , that the July 9 request by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives for an independent prosecutor to examine the Iraqgate affair [ see p. 38998 ] contained " vague and general allegations " which did not meet these conditions . |
| 13 | The sales department refused to accept any cars from the factory which did not meet rigid quality guidelines . |
| 14 | Any criminology which did not devote considerable effort explaining and publicizing corporate crime would , in his view , have failed in its scientific duty . |
| 15 | Bennett , 47 , described as an " abrasive " conservative , had served as Education Secretary within the Reagan administration before being chosen by Bush to become the country 's first " drugs tsar " , a post which did not carry full Cabinet rank . |
| 16 | The classic story is that of the blues singer Ma Rainey , contracted to a company which did not have electrical recording when it became publicized in 1926 . |
| 17 | What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts . |
| 18 | This review included deaths in more than 30 hospitals , most of which did not have paediatric pathology services . |
| 19 | Houses built over garages , which did not have enough columns to damp the lateral motion , crumpled to the ground in San Francisco |
| 20 | BOTCHED plans for a rail bridge which did not have enough room for trains to pass beneath cost the taxpayer nearly £1m , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 21 | Figures compiled by Touche Ross , which did not include personal bankruptcies and corporate liquidations , showed that the number of companies passing into receivership or liquidation fell by 10% in 1992 . |
| 22 | What conclusions could have been usefully drawn from sales which did not include major works by Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , Francis Bacon and other masters by whom its temperature is usually gauged ? |
| 23 | Similarly , areas within a seceding union republic which were populated predominantly by an ethnic group forming a minority in the republic , but which did not enjoy regional autonomy , might be allowed , subject to a referendum and negotiation , to remain within the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , a bank emergency had been declared on Jan. 1 in Rhode Island , where the state authorities had closed 45 local banks which did not enjoy FDIC protection . |
| 25 | The answer was to build cars which did not need such lubrication and to stop adding lead to petrol . |
| 26 | The force of SSAPs resided primarily in the fact that under the ICAEW 's auditing standards , a true and fair view was generally defined as one which did not contravene extant SSAPs ; and that any noncompliance had to be stated and its effect quantified . |
| 27 | Later during the morning she had a lung scan which did not reveal any abscess but showed a picture which was consistent with pneumonia . |
| 28 | Colleges which did not respond last autumn to SCOTVEC 's invitation to discuss the future arrangements for single college awards are now being reminded of the possibility for change in a letter to the Principals . |
| 29 | ( Mitterrand was widely interpreted at the conference as having warned that francophone African states which did not adopt multiparty democracy would be less favourably considered in France 's future allocation of aid . ) |
| 30 | The only company not represented is Elonex , which did not provide any figures . |