Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public .
2 The relocation will be in three phases , each of which is planned to take eighteen months .
3 The second key component in the RAWP procedure consists of an adjustment which is intended to represent regional differentials in need for each service .
4 That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him .
5 The plans have already led to a number of Farnham Lane residents and others interested in protecting the track — which is believed to pre-date Roman times — to object to the reclassification scheme .
6 The major consequence of this bureaucratic inheritance is thus an imbalance between the power of bureaucracy and the power of other political institutions , an imbalance which is believed to have serious implications for further political development .
7 During his working years he has considerable leisure which is bound to have some interactions with work .
8 The major locus , which is assumed to have two alleles — A and A' producing three genotypes AA , AA' , A'A' — is defined by three parameters : q , the frequency of the major gene A' ; t , the displacement — that is , the distance measured in standard deviations on the liability scale between the two homozygous genotype class means ; and d , the degree of dominance , expressed as the position of the heterozygous class mean in relation to the homozygous class mean ( d=0 corresponds to a recessive gene , d=1 to a dominant gene , and d=0.5 to an additive gene ) .
9 The idea is backed by the Meat and Livestock Commission which is trying to interest other chains in similar schemes .
10 Before the already previewed 100MHz , mid-range Model 735 , which is reckoned to do 150 SPECmarks , 81 SPECint92 and 150 SPECfp92 ( UX No 407 ) , there is thought to be another 50MHz machine , possibly the 725/50 , which could be reached from the existing Model 720 via a board swap .
11 A start has been made on a study of the Iapetus Convergence Zone , which is designed to complement local investigations in the Southern Uplands and northern England , and to provide the regional setting for them .
12 EC environment ministers recently supported the commission 's proposed tax , which is designed to persuade energy-intensive sectors such as the chemical industry to curb emissions of carbon dioxide .
13 They take two main forms , each of which is designed to promote different goals : income tax relief for mortgage payments designed to promote house ownership , with the result that the higher the mortgage and the higher the salary , the greater the income tax relief received as well .
14 To make regulations governing literature which is designed to attract new participants .
15 By nominating you for a building society mortgage under the Support Lending Scheme which is designed to help first-time buyers .
16 It is possible to record a search which is designed to emphasize particular features of an information system , or a particular database .
17 As soon as the young caterpillar is free from its egg , it turns round and eats the shell , which is thought to contain valuable nutrients .
18 This is the boast of the excellent leaflet which is produced to give prospective visitors timetable information and details of other facilities .
19 A controversial new device which is claimed to recharge ordinary batteries has been launched in the UK .
20 In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work .
21 It played an important part in attracting investment from Digital UK Ltd , Sun Microsystems Ltd and Motorola , which is expected to create 3,000 jobs .
22 The £6 million scheme , which is expected to create 150 jobs with 85 more during construction , will provide DIY , electrical and furniture shopping facilities for the north-west of the city .
23 The Congress , which is expected to last 10 days , is due to consider the economic crisis and hear a state-of-the-nation report from Mr Yeltsin .
24 The case , which is expected to last several weeks , continues today .
25 It remains open pending the outcome of the tribunal , which is expected to last 3 weeks .
26 HSBC , which is expected to release good profits on Monday , still fell 38p to 603p , reflecting the 200-point drop in the Hang Seng index after the Hong Kong governor 's decision to proceed with plans for partial democracy in the colony in the teeth of Chinese hostility .
27 They are shutting off 35 roads in Handsworth , Birmingham , to create 28 ‘ public safety zones ’ for the event which is expected to attract 500,000 visitors .
28 A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday .
29 The reshuffle clears the decks before Monday 's crucial scheduled central committee 's meeting which is expected to reveal alarming details about Bulgaria 's ailing economy and to tackle the problem of Mr Zhivkov 's internationally comdemned assimilation policy against the country 's Turkish minority .
30 The two sides agreed to hold a further meeting soon which is expected to produce firm proposals for resolving some of the Irish concerns on security .
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