Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the integrin family of molecules provides a mechanism whereby interaction with the extracellular matrix can cause rearrangement of the cellular cytoskeleton and signal changes in gene transcription through the activation of oncogenes and nuclear transcription elements . |
| 2 | In a brief concluding chapter it is shown how study of the human impact can lead to wise management but also that man and nature are difficult to separate , that man is not always responsible for some of the changes with which he is credited , and that environmental impact statements of any kind are difficult to make . |
| 3 | Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved . |
| 4 | SCOTVEC will be pleased to respond to any comments or ideas as to how information on the new framework may be disseminated effectively to all who have an interest . |
| 5 | Mr Kishen prudently praised his royal rival , but he felt her appeal would be limited to Deeg and other rural areas where admiration for the ex-ruling family remains strong . |
| 6 | The last time they fell , bucking the global trend , was in Britain in the 1960s , when faith in the National Health Service was at its height . |
| 7 | Unlike /h/ , however , [ r ] seems to have been lost quite early in a forerunner of the institutional British accent ( RP ) at a time when consciousness of the standard ideology was beginning to develop , and it is this difference in the social evaluation of ( r ) and ( h ) which seems to be the explanation for dominant attitudes to it . |
| 8 | Support from within the group was also vital , particularly in the early days when alienation from the main group of Public Health Nurses was inevitable due to the difference in focus involved in getting the job done . |
| 9 | Currency exchange contracts should only be entered into when receipt of the foreign currency is highly certain . |
| 10 | To test this possibility a cross-hole seismic tomography experiment has been designed , and equipment has been modified to suit the local geology where attenuation in the fractured basement aquifer is expected to be high . |
| 11 | Like every country , Portugal had its own traditions , its own festivals , its own special holidays — such as when independence from the Spanish back in 1640 was celebrated , or the more recent revolution was remembered — but she had yet to fix the dates in her mind . |
| 12 | Western media reports of the food shortages prompted a flood of charitable donations , especially from Germany , where help for the Soviet Union was regarded as a gesture of gratitude for the role of the Soviet leadership in Germany 's reunification . |
| 13 | The end wall of the aisle , adjoining the main entrance , os the only place where alteration of the existing stonework was undertaken . |
| 14 | This is the case at Gotherington in Gloucestershire , where examination of the present stream , in a straight gulley perched on the valleyside , led to the identification of an undocumented , previously unsuspected , water mill site . |
| 15 | The ground used was where herbicide in the previous winter wheat had failed to provide any real control of blackgrass . |
| 16 | But except for that small minority who are going to spend a lifetime in academic pursuits , there must come a time when education for the great majority needs to become more vocational , more concerned with professional training ’ . |
| 17 | During the Tang period , when trade between the Persian Gulf , East Africa , India and the Chinese coast was conducted by Arab sea-farers , rhinoceros horn was among the chief imports to Canton.22 Even larger supplies became available as the Chinese entered into direct trade with ports on the coast of east Africa . |
| 18 | His genuine differences with Moscow about where authority in the communist movement should lie could be exploited to give the impression of a total break with the ideology itself . |
| 19 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 20 | In March 1917 when news of the Russian revolution reached Paris , Modi went running to find his writer friend Ilya Ehrenburg , embraced him and began ‘ screeching enthusiastically ’ , so that Ehrenburg could barely make out what he was saying . |
| 21 | Why start on the wrong foot as collaborators in unpopular and spatchcock loans ? |
| 22 | Why start on the wrong foot as collaborators in unpopular and spatchcock loans ? |
| 23 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 24 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 25 | In practice , however government at the local level is particularly confusing because of the variety of agencies which help to shape and administer local services . |
| 26 | Mr George Bartlett QC opened the case for the National Grid Company at the inquiry in Northallerton on Tuesday with a detailed explanation of why upgrading of the present electricity network was needed . |