Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 2 | Extensive stretches of mudflats also seemed likely to disappear at Strangford , Co Down , the province 's most important estuary — endangering 50,000 waders , 25,000 wildfowl and 90 per cent of the pale-bellied Brent geese which wintered in the British Isles . |
| 3 | Amongst smaller introduced animals are fire ants , which out-compete with the native ants ( and which can cause uncomfortable nights for camping scientists ) ; and cockroaches , which have been discovered on one or two islands and may have been transported inadvertently amongst supplies destined for scientists doing long-term research . |
| 4 | Although this may seem to be a statement of the obvious , it is in fact a very important point which goes to the very roots of movie making . |
| 5 | In Chapter 7 we shall find that there is in quantum theory a radical in-ability to pin things down which goes beyond the simple considerations outlined here . |
| 6 | At their most powerful , Rheims ' photographs have an audaciousness which goes beyond the contrived scenarios which are presented in much of her work . |
| 7 | Go past High Close youth hostel before branching off to the right on to a path which goes around the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell to Rydal village ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 8 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 9 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 10 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 11 | Through its lexical meaning of a movement from point A to point B , to allows one to represent two positions of the infinitive event 's spatial support in time — one before , and one at the beginning of the infinitive 's event — which correspond to the two representations of person — extra- and intra-infinitival — involved in any use of the infinitive . |
| 12 | Thesaurus terms are grouped under a series of category headings which correspond to the main subfields within the area covered by the thesaurus . |
| 13 | There was no barrier against the elements and he was buffeted by the gale-force winds , which whipped across the open wastes of moorland . |
| 14 | A wealth of fascinating history lies within the very name of the Hundred House Hotel which refers to the ancient subdivisions of the shires of England into areas known as ‘ hundreds ’ . |
| 15 | Note : there is a short form of additional enquiries , which refers to the detailed questions by numbers , but its use is not to be recommended — it 's better to have the full questions and answers on one form . |
| 16 | Beats at the second level are stronger beats which alternate with the weaker beats at the lower level . |
| 17 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 18 | It was the criticisms of costs and complexity in small claims , put most convincingly by the Consumer Council in Justice Out of Reach , which led to the procedural reforms of the early 1970s . |
| 19 | The first is that , with the consumer being the main culprit in the spending boom which led to the current difficulties , there is a case for shifting the tax burden from industry to individuals . |
| 20 | A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments . |
| 21 | Some training schools do apply age limits , which contributes to the common misconceptions about age restriction . |
| 22 | Nichols ( 1969 , p. 12 ) views PPB as following five processes which accord to the three elements outlined in the previous paragraph . |
| 23 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 24 | Yet another new style was created when Nonconformist buildings adapted the designs of the public buildings which arose in the final years of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | As a result they were unable to perceive the direction in which a genuine rehabilitation of price theory must be developed and proceeded instead to construct models which suffer from the very defects that invalidate the perfectly competitive model . |
| 26 | Switch on the PC which sits beside the two terminals in the Computer Room ( it 's the only one ) . |
| 27 | Elsewhere reference has been made to the difference between Spanish style and flamenco style ( see page 59 ) which belongs to the Spanish gipsies from whom has also developed what is known as gipsy character dance . |
| 28 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |
| 29 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 30 | He imagined the personal messages which appear in the back pages ( usually on cheaper paper , and often coloured a dull pale yellow or pink ) of such magazines , and he imagined writing replies to these messages , imagined exactly what he would say , even imagined meeting some of these men . |