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

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1 The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence .
2 Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas .
3 Another attractive , smaller species is the Red Finned Fairy Wrasse Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis which rarely exceeds 7cm in length .
4 It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words .
5 Now it could well be argued that the very object of judicial scrutiny is to force the bureaucracy to consider a broader range of policy choices ; that the courts ' role is precisely to ‘ redress ’ the tendency of officials to adopt a very narrow bounded rationality which thereby forecloses policy choices .
6 The worry which most perturbed Winnie was one of which she was deeply ashamed .
7 Yet we suffer ever-growing road congestion , the amelioration of which most thinking people now agree can not be achieved merely by building more roads .
8 In the recounting of this story , several objects are referred to for which most sign languages do not have already existing signs .
9 Since then , he has written , among other things , The Mimic Men : while relatively unsuccessful , this is the novel which most resembles Guerrillas , and it undoubtedly ‘ diminishes ’ the politics of emergent countries by raising doubts about the character of their independence and the motives of their leaders .
10 Nevertheless it was the political complexities which followed which most attracted Gregory .
11 International studies confirm Crossman 's criticism : they place Britain no higher than sixteenth in the league table of countries which most enjoy freedom to publish .
12 But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held .
13 A utility converts whole documents , or a specified range of pages , into PCX files which most fax software can handle .
14 The decisions that will be made on the common agricultural policy and on the GATT talks will be those which most affect farmers in the future .
15 Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted .
16 Here the conventional representation of truth as the unadorned , stable centre which poetic ornamentation covers is replaced by a claim that truth is an ornament , an addition which paradoxically makes beauty seem more beautiful .
17 The two watchmen were in a van , radio-equipped of course , but unfortunately the particular area was under some overhead power cables which badly affect radio for some distance around . ’
18 Equally , the International Garden Festival site , which successfully attracted visitors in the initial year on a subsidised basis , has since remained problematic ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) .
19 However , despite the unusually difficult current year we are optimistic about the next financial year and we believe that the management which successfully revived Stoddard will now bring similar benefits to Sekers .
20 Vendors which successfully complete DCE validation testing will be eligible for OSF 's Challenge ‘ 93 event on May 25 and 26 at which all kinds of OSF technology-based solutions will be on show .
21 But there is evidence that species which wholly abandon sex are short-lived on an evolutionary time-scale .
22 But there have been other trends since 1980 which arguably move things backwards , not one step but two .
23 Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond .
24 It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them .
25 But bail should be set at a level which effectively deters flight .
26 They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales .
27 The existence of a Letter of Credit which effectively guarantees payment [ see 1.4 above ] will assist the bank when considering a request for finance .
28 Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion .
29 Vibration in the suspension is minimised by special front subframe mountings and pendulum-type engine mountings which effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the road wheels .
30 Fighting as ‘ Jack Johnson ’ he overcame the barrier known as the ‘ colour line ’ which effectively forbade blacks from boxing whites and wrested the supreme prize under the most dramatic circumstances .
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