Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 2 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 3 | Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites . |
| 4 | Or we could apply some kind of transformation which would stretch out the tails of the distribution , which would let us stick with arithmetic procedures and avoid multiplicative models . |
| 5 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |
| 6 | Club members — they have all either undergone open heart surgery themselves or have helped loved ones through the ordeal — display this zest for life which would encourage anyone faced with the same ordeal . |
| 7 | Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 9 | It is this type of journey which will give any post-privatisation revenue-allocation system most trouble , Mr Doe affirms . |
| 10 | This type of account which may be held in US dollars or sterling , is especially useful if you are an importer regularly making small to medium , non-urgent payments in a range of foreign currencies . |
| 11 | Almost every high street in Britain has some glimmer of character which can be brought out sensitively rather than needlessly brutalized . |
| 12 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 13 | He says that Hereford needs some sort of scheme which will be sympathetic to the area 's enviromnent , but succeed in reducing traffic . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would be useful in such cases if the court could , instead of refusing relief completely , grant some sort of declaration which would not impugn the decision affecting the applicant but would state a rule or principle which would apply to future cases . |
| 15 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 16 | AD 180 , to coincide with the account of an invasion of northern Britain by the historian Cassius Dio ; the wholesale acceptance of this view , though , causes some strains in interpretation which can not be easily reconciled , chief among them being the implication that the damaged forts and other frontier works were left in a state of disrepair for the best part of 25 years , an unbelievable occurrence in Roman military affairs of the period . |
| 17 | I see alright well or I I invite members of the jury , the council wants to address me on some point of law which need n't concern you , so if you take a short break please . |
| 18 | My attitude to another body of reference which will be addressed in Chapter 2 is different . |
| 19 | Some questions about Medau which may be asked . |
| 20 | Out of this , we can arrive perhaps at some principles of practice which can be seen to be both compatible with normalisation ( in our preferred sense ) and supportive of self-advocacy . |
| 21 | Pupils also benefit by experiencing another use of technology which may be outside their own experience . |
| 22 | And it is this spirit of competitiveness which can cause a link to be forged between the " categorical assertions " of religions and the dark side of religion . |
| 23 | A local authority may still claim privilege against disclosure in these circumstances and the court will then have to balance the two competing public interests as in Re M. ( c ) Privilege against incrimination Another form of privilege which may be claimed by a witness is the privilege against incrimination of self or spouse . |
| 24 | Another form of article which can include art criticism is a theoretical paper . |
| 25 | Some damage is always done , no matter how careful the technique , and the recovery of small mammal assemblages nearly always depends on some form of screening which can be moderately destructive . |
| 26 | In this section , we will consider another aspect of speech which can also provide valuable insights into the nature of language production . |
| 27 | He refrained , not wishing to goad Googol into some display of bravado which might rob Jaq of such an excellent warp pilot . |
| 28 | External events are represented in the brain as spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity , and it is these patterns of activity which must themselves be the agents of synaptic change . |
| 29 | However , by keeping our thoughts to ourselves we are often depriving that person of information which could be very helpful . |
| 30 | We can change the way we let our past experiences affect us now , so that we are better equipped to handle the impact on us of all kinds of pressure which would otherwise unsettle and upset as time goes on . |