Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern gas blowlamps are cleaner and safer to use than the old-fashioned paraffin type and , for most jobs , the type which is fitted on to a disposable cartridge is perfectly adequate . |
| 2 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 3 | The chamber is then flooded from below with 3375 litres ( 750gal ) of dip , which is pumped in from a nearby vacuum tanker . |
| 4 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 5 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 6 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 7 | Sometimes the wet ink which is sprayed on to a horizontal board can spread out sideways , which results in a reasonably-uniform layer in the middle of the board , but an excessively thick border of ink around the edges of the board . |
| 8 | He is also in the chair for the second single , due in May , and the debut album which is pencilled in for an August release . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 10 | This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes . |
| 11 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 12 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 13 | ‘ What we are seeing now is a public revulsion against violence in society which is feeding through to a desire for greater sensitivity by programme makers , ’ he said . |
| 14 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 15 | There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells . |
| 16 | Locate the stars 59 , 58 and 56 ; the cluster lies near 56 , which is made up of a pair . |
| 17 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 18 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 19 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 20 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |
| 21 | The long slow movement ( track 28 ) is particular seems to be the core of Reger , prophetic of early Schoenberg or Busoni and darkly introspective in sharp contrast to the Mozart theme , which is blown up at the end of the concluding fugue — almost literally , pious Mozartians may feel , in Wagnerian harmony . |
| 22 | A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT . |
| 23 | of which is contracted out to the private sector . |
| 24 | At 31st March 1991 the scheme , which is contracted out of the state scheme , had assets of approximately £28.6m ( 1990 — £24.2m ) at market value . |
| 25 | This turning movement generates a tiny radio wave which is sent back to the scanner 's powerful computer . |
| 26 | This turning movement generates a tiny radio wave which is sent back to the scanner 's powerful computer . |
| 27 | They differ in operation : the control mechanism is a type of solid portcullis ( or ‘ gate ’ ) which is screwed down across the flow of water . |
| 28 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 29 | The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person . |
| 30 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |