Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The visitor to Hong Kong is able to experience an appealing combination of cultural and sporting events , including the Festival of Asian Arts which occurs during autumn , and the Mid Autumn Festival , when families cluster around candles and lanterns under the full moon . |
2 | The socially undesirable characteristics which advocates of this movement felt were inheritable and should be eliminated were , as always , strongly influenced by contemporary social imperatives . |
3 | This compares with the analysis done by the business units which tends to be more detailed , operational and more concerned with the competitor 's performance in individual markets . |
4 | Currently the Commission is , however , considering giving grants towards pilot restoration projects in Venice , invoking the special clause of the structural funds which allows for grants to urban areas outside declining or under-developed regions . |
5 | So please will you consider for three months out of our funds which has to be the to pay her that amount of money or else we can not cope . |
6 | One of a new generation of slow down utilities which caters for high speed 80386 and 80486 computers . |
7 | This month 's Gold St*r Award goes to another of our friendly knitting machine shops which goes beyond the call of duty when it comes to satisfying the customers . |
8 | With the exception of a small group of public schools , there is the apparently simple distinction between state schools and Roman catholic schools which occurs in Britain . |
9 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
10 | A sequence of words which ends at a point where a pause may be made without any detrimental effect to the sense of the utterance . |
11 | It is possible and convenient to select a perspective on the scope , associations and labels for subjects which coincides with the way in which those subjects are handled in the literature . |
12 | Erm to be honest the revision getting a bit neglected it 's , we 've done most of our coursework , in most subjects there 's coursework which in some subjects which has to be , not , does n't have to be done before the exam but it 's preparation , preparation work for the exams . |
13 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
14 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
15 | The body 's natural reaction to reduced blood volume is to con-strict peripheral blood vessels which leads to pale , cold and often clammy skin . |
16 | What mediates between the de-limited artistic field ( and the other properly cultural fields ) and the large social field , in other words what mediates between the field of production and consumption , is for Bourdieu the education system . |
17 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
18 | The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘ cover ’ everything ( and every angle ) through a ‘ completist ’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader . |
19 | A good heuristic function is a function f on states which tends to be large on nodes on paths to goals . |
20 | There is a statutory financial penalty for non return of forms which starts at 50 rising to 200 for repeated non–compliance . |
21 | Money is one of the more fascinating of social inventions which depends on counting as a capacity to express , in a word , measure , the social value of individuals , labour and commodities in society . |
22 | The need to indicate both atoms is due to the order of operations which results in a branch having priority over a functional group ( see Table ) . |
23 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
24 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
25 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
26 | The parade consists of a procession of floats [ many of which are transported on Wood Group Offshore lorries ] , bands and entertainers which proceeds down Union Street to the Beach Boulevard . |
27 | On the contrary , Bradley goes on , a properly ‘ worked-out view of the specificity of cultural goods … [ would recognize ] the co-production of meanings which goes with them ’ ( ibid : 47 ) . |
28 | We shall see that , since 1 January 1926 , the only one of these estates which survives as a legal estate is the estate in fee simple . |
29 | So , argues Parkin , this apparent consensus is , in fact , an expression of the particular system of dominant values which operates in such societies . |
30 | There is a gradient of values which increases from north to south . |