Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher can often save lengthy explanation by carefully constructing a diagram or chart which encapsulates the main points of a lesson . |
| 2 | Housing authorities throughout Britain are required to develop housing plans or strategies which encompass the private sector , and many central government concerns such as the amount of Green Belt land to be made available to developers can be elucidated by the use of local market models . |
| 3 | Nothing short of non est factum rendering the transfer void , or forgery which has the same legal effect but is not now alleged , will suffice to defeat the building society 's innocent reliance upon the transfer . |
| 4 | Homographs , or words which have the same spelling but very diverse meanings , must be identified . |
| 5 | In the wild , even ripe pods do not fall off the trees ; they are opened in situ by squirrels or monkeys which suck the sweet pulp off the seeds . |
| 6 | However , there is a distinct intensional structure underlying them ( again , the underlining is purely to indicate which P we are interested in , and is not part of our notational system ) : ( 47 ) That is , users of English interpret the relation between the property of the adjective and the word or phrase which instantiates the preceding entity in just the same way as they would interpret the relation between a predicative adjective and the subject in an explicit clause ; it therefore seems reasonable to call adjectives so used clausal adjectives . |
| 7 | In additions to classifying specific weaving centres or tribes , the term may also be used in a broader sense to encompass any collection of tribes or villages which combine the same ethnic origins , or general location , with an underlying uniformity in their rugs . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter . |
| 9 | Neutralizing agents are usually either acids or alkalis which neutralize the odorous gas on impact , so for example acidic gases such as fatty acids , sulphur dioxide , chlorine , hydrogen-chloride and sulphides and mercaptans can to some extent be neutralized by contact with sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate ( both alkalis ) whilst weak sulphuric acid or phosphoric acid for example can be used as a neutralizing media for alkaline gases such as ammonia or amines . |
| 10 | The nation will not easily forgive any group or party which deprives the rising generation of the brighter future promised by the measure outlined by Mr Butler . |
| 11 | The Prayer Boat do n't write songs , so much as swells of piano and guitar which float the peculiar Mike Scott-like voice of Emmet Tinley . |
| 12 | The idea that a contritional experience is an ongoing activity in which every man fights and conquers those elements of his fallen nature as Christ fought evil on the Cross and that this is part of the continuing process of redemption — indeed its very condition — was at the heart of their preaching and teaching which developed the monastic piety of an earlier period for a lay audience . |
| 13 | 20 ) , are stylistically closer to those in the Cupids mosaic than are those of North Hill B. The leaves and buds which comprise the floral scroll in the Cupids mosaic however , are more comparable to those of the central square of the latter . |
| 14 | He says : Both companies are well managed in Aerospace and Defence which complements the other five companies in the management buy in . |
| 15 | God 's authority would sometimes flash across the universe in miracles and signs which illuminated the true nature of Satan 's shadowed kingdom . |
| 16 | Thus the values , principles and skills which inform the latter should also inform the former . |
| 17 | KPMG Peat Marwick has published Example Building Society , a model set of reports and accounts which reflect the new accounts Regulations issued by the Building Societies Commission to implement the EC Bank Accounts Directive for building societies . |
| 18 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 19 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 20 | I like the lightness of touch and buoyancy which inform the six Schübler Chorales too . |
| 21 | These are the groups and organizations which express the vast diversity of interests within society . |
| 22 | In his wake is left a highly-professional movie with some excellent knockabout acting and a level of pace and tension which exceeds the breakneck delights of its predecessor . |
| 23 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 24 | We will establish , in the lifetime of a full Parliament , an elected Welsh Assembly in Cardiff with powers and functions which reflect the existing administrative structure . |
| 25 | As Lord Simon recognised in Morgan , it is the role which the criminal law has in protecting girls under 16 from sexual exploitation and abuse which justifies the present law . |
| 26 | There were several other incidents in Streatham and Brixton which interrupted the through service to Croydon and Purley and occasionally cars had to be lent to other depôts . |
| 27 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 28 | This , as Professor Hoskins rightly points out , was further developed by the railways , but the canals began the spread of standard bricks , tiles and slates which changed the visual appearance of much of England . |
| 29 | But whatever form a parallelism takes , its effect is to foreground the relation between parallel words and phrases which fill the variable positions . |
| 30 | In general terms , if you can not see the water surface you should trim and fly the aeroplane at the speed and configuration which gives the best combination of high nose attitude , low airspeed and minimum rate of descent . |