Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now if we can give a sense to a residue of basic rules which qualify as human rights , as I have argued , then a respect for life would certainly be one of them .
2 But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right .
3 There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position .
4 This is a field which involves rather different skills from those needed for advertising , and some agencies , my own for one , have a separate design department to handle this type of job .
5 Sport is high-performance stuff varied with a bit of club golf played by famous people or a marathon which involves both top athletes and the general public .
6 LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated .
7 Calor 's continuing sponsorship of the Nationals , which involves over 400 teams in five divisions , has been rewarded with great enthusiasm and some staggering catches .
8 We can thus substitute equation ( 1 ) into equation ( 2 ) and obtain For a chemical system which involves only solid and/or liquid reactants and products , the expansion V of the system is often negligible or zero .
9 Illusions , dreams , and fancies , on the other hand , consist of ‘ ideas of imagination ’ which are voluntary and subject to our wills , and which lack both lively strength and orderly coherence .
10 However , for countries such as France , Japan and Taiwan and a number of developing countries such as the Republic of Korea which lack readily available alternative energy sources , the development of nuclear energy still remains a priority .
11 The emphasis on fast food operations has brought into play appliances which concentrate extremely high temperatures on raw products containing fats and other volatile substances .
12 The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries .
13 It follows the company 's jobs-for-life Rover Tomorrow deal signed earlier this year , which ruled out compulsory redundancies .
14 They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door .
15 Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after .
16 It was other evidence which ruled out this model .
17 Where redemption did go into effect immediately , the peasantry soon found their allotments inadequate , and their land hunger was exacerbated by a massive population increase which averaged about 1.5 per cent per year in the second half of the nineteenth century .
18 In referral meetings attended by all the staff , an educational psychologist , and an education social worker , decisions on particular cases are taken according to a broad consensus which operated around two major and related considerations .
19 But outside the main entrance stands a tall flagpole , at the top of which flies as large a sample of the Stars and Stripes as any patriot could hope for .
20 We have examined data from a survey conducted by one of us in which timed overnight urinary albumin excretion was measured in 976 European and 789 south Asian men aged 40–69 in west London .
21 Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland continue to enjoy annual funding at around £15 million each — but in England , which receives approximately 90 per cent of the volume and value of tourism , Government seems set on a course of pruning ETB 's grant from around £9 million currently to only £2 million a year for national activities by 1995/96 .
22 The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five .
23 ‘ Business enterprises can survive only with the approval of the community in which they operate and they have an interest in revealing information which displays how differing interests are being balanced for the benefit of the whole community .
24 Since the sixth century , the Benedictine monks of Europe had evolved a uniquely Western spirituality , which centred round these disciplines .
25 It is not so easy in the case of traditionally defined domestic tasks since despite the fact that these have , and are , changing over time , popular mass images of all kinds still perpetuate an out of date portrayal which goes largely unchallenged .
26 The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time .
27 The semiquaver decorations are given to the flutes except for one short passage which goes too low for the flute , and is taken by the clarinet .
28 The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area .
29 Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month .
30 We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month .
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