Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
2 | The great majority of farmers continue to use minimal quantities of fertiliser although fertility is being depleted ; few governments are tackling the question of the use of their under-populated areas on a systematic basis ; the organizations which serve small farmers have cut back their operations in response to budgetary pressures and in response to the pressure for privatization ; the frequently competent staff of national agricultural research bodies are everywhere starved of funds for transport and field labour . |
3 | Certainly schools which have sixth forms try hard to make use of prior knowledge about each student 's performance and information about his or her potential . |
4 | You can go so far as to say that any words which produce good music constitute a good libretto . |
5 | Activities which create such damage include a variety of sports , such as skiing and boating , as well as camping , walking , riding and picnicking . |
6 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |
7 | Knowledge of the world tells us that houses which contain living rooms do not usually contain bars . |
8 | Computer simulation models which incorporate random effects have been described in this chapter . |
9 | Above 7500 metres , climbers who eschew bottled oxygen play a deadly physiological game where the penalty for miscalculation , while usually not immediate , can be terminal . |
10 | Oh , of course the opposite happens in a group , I mean what happens in groups you know therapeutic groups tend to be like this one , they sit in circles and they , they kind of focus on very often on the leader who often plays a very , very powerful role even if they claim not to . |
11 | The catalogues which accompany these events have rather different characters , for although there are entries for the exhibited works in each sort of catalogue , and usually an introduction , historical catalogues often have additional essays . |
12 | Initially , involvement with international banking was provided via consortium banks which offered Arab banks access to the euro-currency markets and other sophisticated financial operations . |
13 | The ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ listed in these tables are for many areas of study a realistic indication of the grades likely to be required and applicants who hold these grades stand an excellent chance of being made an offer , eg for most degrees in the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Science and Engineering , and the less pressured areas in the Social Sciences such as Nursing Studies or Social Policy . |
14 | Individuals who seek homoeopathic treatment tend , on the whole , to be open-minded and willing to recognize the relationships between man and nature . |
15 | In a more formal way we can state that fundamental rights which protect individual autonomy comprise immunities against state interference whereas the right to enforce a contract asserts a claim to harness state power to control the actions of another . |
16 | Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women 's studies rather than within feminist psychology . |
17 | In fact , astronomers who conduct such surveys estimate that 95 per cent of stars are less luminous than the Sun . |
18 | Sociologists who use such documents have to ask themselves whether the evidence therein is authentic , whether it is complete , how representative it is of the experiences described , whether it is distorted by the personal bias of the writer , and why it was written . |
19 | They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably . |
20 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
21 | The forces which drive technological development have a close parallel in biological evolution . |
22 | ‘ How many of these girls who wear this colour have ever heard of the Incas of Peru ? ’ |
23 | This work has dealt with the relative merits of various strategies ( such as tit-for-tat ) when players who recognize each other meet repeatedly , and more recently with ensembles of strategies and with the effects of occasional errors . |
24 | The room is stacked with bolts of cloth , and lengths of fabric hang from poles which have thistle-shaped finials cut out in wood ( two are on the mantelpiece ) |
25 | But again , the presuppositions which produce such doubts do not describe who God is for the god they describe is not God . |
26 | Analysing the figures , we have discovered that those outlets which offer cooked food have actually increased their sales of all beverages , including liquor , whereas those which either do not sell food or provide only snacks such as crisps and sandwiches have shown significant decreases in liquor sales . |
27 | The vehicles which use this system have the units built into the pod , such as the Rover SDI 2400 diesel and the Range Rover . |
28 | Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago . |
29 | Many thousands of separate natural minerals which fit this definition have been described , and , especially in the nineteenth century , scientists spent decades of their lives in searching out new ones . |
30 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |