Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They lived in 264 houses which averages 5.36 persons to a household .
2 There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark .
3 He believed that the conflict of interest between capital and labour , which involves one group gaining at the expense of the other , could not be resolved within the framework of a capitalist economy .
4 Paasi then investigates what he terms the ‘ institutionalization of regions ’ , the process by which they are created , which involves four stages in the formation of ‘ structures of expectations ’ that embrace both the physical and the cultural characteristics of a region .
5 This is Ireland 's first official participation in the prestigious competition which involves 24 nations , and they are naturally hoping to find some sort of coordination and rhythm in the run-up to the World Cup Sevens in Edinburgh on April 16–18 . ’
6 Williams has another fancied runner in Donals Delight , which receives 4 metres , winning on Monday night in a time of 27.96 secs .
7 But more money is needed to guarantee the future of its four refuges , which annually help 400 desperate women and children , and its 24-hour crisis line , which receives 10,000 calls a year .
8 The variation in day length decreases with distance from the poles and vanishes at the Equator , which receives 12 hours of light each day throughout the year .
9 Certain things are still here : the curling stone ; the brush , or walking stick as it is now ; the old photograph a little ragged at the edges which displays three men and a little terrier called Coogan .
10 Blundstone boots are showing no signs of receding and back in their birthplace of Hobart , Tasmania , they 've walked into the city 's art gallery which displays 35 Oz artists ' response to ‘ Do Something With A Blundstone ’ .
11 There is a new conventional integrated amplifier in the range , the AX-V401 ( £199.5 ) , which offers 55 watts per channel into 8 ohms and has six audio , two video ( sound channels ) and facilities for two tape machines , multi-function remote control handset , a ‘ direct ’ signal switch ( by-passes the tone controls ) and a continuously-variable loudness control .
12 A further point is that although Piaget implies that explanations which combine two types of content are always inappropriate , this is not in fact the case .
13 Bit mapped graphics : Certainly the most common , these derive their name from the fact that they are made up from individual dots or pixels , each of which represents one bit of computer memory .
14 A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area .
15 The association , which represents 98 p.c. of British pet food manufacturers , reported that 1.4m tonnes of food worth £1.2 billion was sold last year .
16 The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent .
17 The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent .
18 Yesterday , Martin Eaglestone , chairperson of the North Wales Local Government Committee which represents 8,000 workers , said that Nalgo welcomed any serious attempt by the Welsh Office to meet the aspirations of staff .
19 The Paris-based Office Internationale d'Epizooties ( OIE ) , which represents 120 countries , has accepted the principle that live trading could be resumed provided it were restricted to animals born after the feed ban — and that cattle born from BSE infected dams were excluded .
20 Its planned introduction has caused adverse reaction from the Union of Communications Workers , which represents 40,000 BT employees .
21 The courses would be organized around the concept of a module , which represents sixty hours of ‘ class-contact ’ .
22 A spokeswoman for the BDA , which represents 15,000 dentists , said : ‘ For the moment we are ruling nothing out .
23 Officials from the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions , which represents seven Rolls-Royce unions , will urge the company at today 's meeting in London that the job losses should be voluntary .
24 The RMI , which represents 13,000 garages , has a comprehensive code , endorsed by the OFT , which covers areas such as servicing , warranty repairs , quotations , estimates and premises .
25 However , Alistair Clark , president of the Law Society of Scotland , which represents 6,400 solicitors , criticised the decision to allow banks , building societies and other authorised practitioners who complied with a statutory code of conduct to charge for conveyancing .
26 Stanfords has an IBM RS6000 which drives four PCs , three PC based cash tills , 10 dumb terminals , creating a 17 site user system ; it will be linked to Stanfords ' at British Airways in Regent Street .
27 Is it love which drives one human to reduce another to a state of highly charged expectation and desire when no more can be done , or is it lust ?
28 The reports are debated in the House and we follow the practice of the Select Committee on Procedure which recommended three days for such reports .
29 Only later was a full investigation made of the events in Dallas by a commission under Chief Justice Earl Warren , which produced 26 volumes of evidence .
30 The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings .
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