Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True aneurysms with dilatation and thinning of the arterial wall , although uncommon , may be found especially in animals which have experienced repeated infection . |
| 2 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 3 | The Bundeskriminalamt or BKA is supervising the hunt for the IRA units which have attacked British servicemen and their families in recent months . |
| 4 | In this sense all socialist parties are revolutionary , since their objective is to replace a capitalist form of society by a socialist one ; so also are nationalist parties which seek to overthrow colonial rule , and perhaps in a more limited sense right-wing parties , such as fascist parties , which attempt to restore a more hierarchical and authoritarian type of society . |
| 5 | The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms . |
| 6 | We may have mixed feelings about scientific triumphs which have included nuclear weapons as well as electric light but we can not deny the comprehensive debt we owe to the emergence of scientific method . |
| 7 | The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services . |
| 8 | As a public figure hero-worshipped by countless youngsters , his drug-taking was a sad business , but few people in any field have ever used their fame better than his long-distance walks which have raised vast sums for charity . |
| 9 | Recently our special commendation has been awarded to shops which have shown particular kindness to customers , This month 's winners are certainly not short of kindness either but it was the general all-round excellence of their business that made Tessa Brown of Mansfield recommend the Ollerton Machine Knitting Centre for our Gold St*r . |
| 10 | Formula funding , explained later in the chapter as the cornerstone of the new arrangements for resource distribution to schools , represents a way of rewarding schools which have attracted such consumers . |
| 11 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 12 | But there are some phonetic sequences which seem to have semantic value of a sort , yet they do not correspond to grammatical elements : there seems to be a direct pathway from sound to meaning , bypassing grammar . |
| 13 | All VAX/VMS accounts which require to access this database must execute the ORAUSER.COM file from their login command file to define the logicals and symbols referenced by ORACLE ( again , see Reference 7 ) e.g. where |
| 14 | Where these conditions do not prevail — as in health care — writing , setting , and enforcing comprehensive contracts which try to predict all contingencies and deal with all possible risks becomes very difficult and costly ( Bartlett 1991 ) . |
| 15 | Its scope is very broad , ranging from research which simulates human mental activities such as perception , natural language interpretation and mathematical reasoning , to projects which seek to design intelligent machines , such as robots for deep sea mineral exploration , and consultation programs for diagnosing diseases . |
| 16 | TOM Thumb schoolboy Steven Green is walking tall — thanks to pioneering leg-stretch operations which have added eight inches to his height . |
| 17 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 18 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 19 | If we get involved in activities which claim to contact hidden powers ( another word for ‘ hidden ’ is ‘ occult ’ ) — then , often without meaning to , we open our minds to those harmful influences . |
| 20 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 21 | Thus , many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons . |
| 22 | In the end , however , the power bloc is working to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and any policies which appear to question these interests are in fact nothing of the sort . |
| 23 | In the agricultural sector , the self-interest of the state has led to policies which have favoured distorted exchange rates , consistently favouring government and the urban population at the expense of the incomes of rural families , and ultimately at the expense of marketed production . |
| 24 | Homelessness is a social phenomenon , not part of the human condition , and has been created in part by economic policies which have deterred local councils , housing associations and private property owners from maintaining or developing low rental housing . |
| 25 | In short , ignorance of the decisions which others are in fact about to make may cause decision-makers to make unfortunate plans — either plans that are doomed to disappointment or plans which fail to exploit existing market opportunities . |
| 26 | Some of the rules which have caused considerable debate are reproduced below : |
| 27 | Over the last three years , it has staged a number of hunger strikes and occupations of the administrative offices of the prison and sent out bulletins which have received wide distribution in El Salvador and abroad . |
| 28 | There are some underground opposition groups which have used imaginative tactics to capture the world 's attention , calling on celebrities like Bob Geldof to endorse their struggle . |
| 29 | Although public attention is often focused on our pollution abatement performance , we are fully aware of our responsibilities to develop new products which have reduced environmental impact , both in their use and their disposal . |
| 30 | Merck intends to make synthetic copies of any compounds resulting from rainforest products which prove to have pharmaceutical potential . |