Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the flavour which whisky gives to a sauce differs from that produced by cognac , armagnac or Calvados ; certainly the aromas coming from the pot while the whisky is cooking are also very different ; but by the time the alcohol has been burned and cooked away I wonder how many people would spot what precisely the difference is . |
| 2 | There are two possibilities : one involves active rifting in which rifting develops as a response to the tensional stresses induced in the crust by uplift resulting from upwelling of the asthenosphere ( Fig. 4.5(C) ) ; the other involves passive rifting in which rifting is initiated by extensional stresses in the lithosphere , and this permits the subsequent upwelling of hot mantle which in turn induces thermal uplift ( Fig. 4.12 ) . |
| 3 | and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room |
| 4 | Fergus ' London also remains haunted by his IRA past , which Jordan shows as a conflict not between factions , but between different kinds of humanity — with Fergus himself seeming shockingly sympathetic after the media black-out on real-life terrorists . |
| 5 | Production staff must be conscious that how they build products may affect its EMC performance ; service engineers , likewise , must be sure that they do not compromise EMC once products are in the field ; the purchasing department must be aware that EMC constraints placed on suppliers may make a component more expensive to buy , but will probably save money when the end product is tested as a whole ; and the marketing and sales department must plan to sell the advantage which EMC brings to a product . |
| 6 | Marx sees , rather , a tension or contradiction between the principle of democracy — the full participation of all members of society in regulating their communal life — and the limited , even distorted form which democracy assumes in a class society in which the bourgeoisie is dominant . |
| 7 | Whilst one objective is to reduce to an absolute minimum the range of products held there is a point at which rationalisation leads to a loss of efficiency and results in increased , rather than reduced , costs . |
| 8 | He published many other papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and elsewhere , especially after his retirement in 1884 , on a wide variety of subjects , including the magnetization of iron , atomic weights , the spectrum of thallium , the moving force of celestial bodies , aerial locomotion , and the velocity with which air rushes into a vacuum . |
| 9 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 10 | At that time it got around that he was a straight-faced , humourless character , which Wegerle regards as a slander . |
| 11 | Scrooge 's late partner whose ghost appears in a Christmas |
| 12 | A woman from Nairobi who is a laundry worker in North London but whose husband works in a bank told me about her daughter . |
| 13 | Every party whose signature appears on a bill is prima facie deemed to have become a party thereto for value . |
| 14 | Space-time in the vicinity of a star whose radius shrinks to a value less than becomes so warped that the region inside radius rO is effectively isolated from the rest of the Universe . |
| 15 | Part of that deal involves Fulham , whose Craven Cottage ground is owned by another Cabra company and whose lease expires in a year . |
| 16 | There 's usually a fair amount of hash around , I 'm told , mainly distributed , as elsewhere , by people whose profit consists of a ten-spot , cut off a quarter , for themselves . |
| 17 | To make helium requires both protons and neutrons , so instead of hydrogen you use deuterium or ‘ heavy hydrogen ’ whose nucleus consists of a proton and a neutron tightly gripped without any electrical disruption . |
| 18 | What is mandatory is nothing more or less than what Parliament requires as a precondition of according to such instruments the force of law . |
| 19 | What faith says in a situation is an expression of what it sees behind the situation . |
| 20 | They have to learn what football means in a city like this . |
| 21 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 22 | But nobody else is in all four of these key areas of chemical technology , and there are no new entrants into what Ewart describes as a club with an extremely high entry cost . |
| 23 | He experienced what sin does to a person . |
| 24 | This is what sin does to a person . |
| 25 | When a covenant in a lease is breached the general contractual remedies — injunction , specific performance and damages — are available to whichever party suffers as a consequence . |