Example sentences of "whereas the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embalmers , after all , care for the dead ; whereas the cryonic technician would be concerned with the ultimate aim of reanimation . |
| 2 | Average prices decreased by 13.3 per cent in the South East during the twelve months prior to March 1990 , whereas the corresponding figure for the North of England was an increase of 25.2 per cent . |
| 3 | Recall that the spectral reflectance curve of vigorous , healthy vegetation shows a dip in the red region of the visible spectrum and a peak in the short-wave infrared ( Figure 5.8(a) ) whereas the corresponding curve for water shows a decline from visible green through visible red to a low in the short-wave infrared . |
| 4 | The adviser pointed to the documentation LEAs receive about HMI disposition ( DES , 1986 ) in which HMI remain organized in separate subject sections , whereas the managerial implication of their recent curriculum rationale would suggest they would be more satisfactorily arranged in ‘ domain groupings ’ . |
| 5 | The main difference between the two tasks was that the causal task required a choice between two different events ( the cause and the effect of B ) , whereas the temporal task required a choice between two different event-orders . |
| 6 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 7 | Very often the ‘ bright'-faced moon beams out energy and optimism to others , whereas the dark side is a drawing-in of forces to itself . |
| 8 | Whereas the western credit instruments mainly took the form of Bills of Exchange , the Japanese concentrated on Promissory Notes . |
| 9 | A strict comparison can not be made since the new charges are based on two-person households whereas the existing charge is levied on individual community charge payers . |
| 10 | In demographic terms the developed countries are old societies , whereas the developing world has a youthful population structure . |
| 11 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 12 | The Government are determined to get rid of arrangements that differentiate against the United Kingdom , whereas the Labour party wishes to increase such differentiation and to pay farmers and others in the southern European states money that will come from the very low incomes of British farmers . |
| 13 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 14 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 15 | In as much that er in the County Council 's opinion these two s these two paddock , fields , whatever you call them , to the north of Skelton are visually more related to the village , whereas the other land around Skelton is clearly open agricultural land and therefore forms part of the open countryside around Skelton . |
| 16 | Whereas the other way round , we would n't have it . ’ |
| 17 | When the stem cell divides one of the two daughter cells may go on to give rise to other types of cell , whereas the other daughter cell remains a stem cell , capable of dividing again and always giving one daughter to diversification . |
| 18 | In one pathway , receptors are coupled through G proteins to stimulate PLC- β , whereas the other pathway depends upon tyrosine kinase-linked receptors which are specifically coupled to PLC- γ . |
| 19 | ‘ Big Tom is definitely Irish whereas the other fella looks like he stepped out of Dallas or something like that . ’ |
| 20 | A test sentence from data from the recogniser ( both wizened men quickly judged four sharp vixens ) took 17 seconds to build and search the tree using the old method , whereas the new method took 13 seconds . |
| 21 | The change in definition does , however , affect the treatment of local authority expenditure ; the old definition included all local authority expenditure , whereas the new definition covers only the support for this expenditure provided by central government , i.e. it excludes expenditure which local authorities finance themselves . |
| 22 | Many , if not most , were also part of the ‘ hippie ’ subculture , whereas the new heroin users in Wirral were largely ‘ ordinary ’ youths with no obvious strong allegiances to contemporary subcultures such as ‘ punk ’ ( see Chapters 4 and 5 ) . |
| 23 | I 'd like to give them fresh fruit , whereas the good food has to be limited . |
| 24 | Whereas the good introduction impresses , the poor one depresses , conditioning the reader to anticipate inaccuracy , poor understanding , irrelevancy , muddled thinking-all the qualities , in fact , which the experienced examiner has come to associate with the weak or poor response . " |
| 25 | An allowance is made as compensation in the rates for family credit , but the amount allowed varies from 45 pence to 60 pence a day , whereas the average price of a meal in primary schools is 65 pence . |
| 26 | charge is about £50 , whereas the average cost of collection is about £12 . |
| 27 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 28 | It must be remembered that computers are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal figures ( whereas the average desk calculator can work to ten- or eleven-place accuracy ) . |
| 29 | Whereas the average radiation exposure per person from all sources in the United Kingdom is around 2.5 mSv per year ( 3.6 mSv in the USA ) , enhanced radon exposure in the granite areas of south-west England raises the average level there to 7.8 mSv , with some individuals experiencing 20 mSv in a year ( Clarke and Southwood , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | The average price of platinum was £215 in the year as compared with £211 in 1991–92 , whereas the average rhodium price declined from £1,773 in 1992 to £1,253 . |