Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This in turn does n't help his voice , which rarely breaks from a rather lazy-sounding , aspirant Jack Nicholson-style Californian croak .
2 The major difference which appears from the beginning is that sign language does not require voice and therefore allows the possibility of a mixing of two language codes , something which rarely occurs in the spoken situation .
3 It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza .
4 Widdicombe ( 1986 , vol. 1 , table 2.1 ) revealed that in 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent , hence in ‘ many , perhaps most … councils the party group ’ which rarely figures on organization charts — ‘ has become the focus of political decision ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 97 ) .
5 The lowest shrub of all the sorts here mentioned is the Scotch Rose which rarely grows above a foot high , so that this must be placed among other shrubs of the same growth , which should have a moist soil and a shady situation .
6 Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project .
7 The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders .
8 But there is Marxist work on the origins and on typologies of art which properly belongs in this first division .
9 KPMG Peat Marwick will not assume the responsibility which properly rests with the directors for the fair disclosure of information ( including financial information ) in investment advertisements ( including prospectuses , listing particulars , offer documents , Information memoranda and information circulars .
10 THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap .
11 The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength .
12 Any benefit obtained from the issue costs is reflected in the interest expense and hence issue costs are appropriately accounted for as an adjustment to the amount of the liability , which effectively results in their being charged over the life of the instrument .
13 Indeed , but it is a pretension which effectively connects with the masses .
14 We interpret this result as being due to the highly repetitive nature of the target sequence which effectively competes with other amplification products resulting in their subamplification and lack of detectability on the gel .
15 The Dalai Lama has sought to secure an agreement with the Chinese Government for the future autonomy of Tibet , which effectively exists at present in name only .
16 Prior to the block exemption , such agreements would have had to be cleared individually by the Commission , a practice which effectively amounts to notification .
17 This " combination " which effectively amounts to no more than the adjective itself is then linked by explicit assignment to the entity of the subject .
18 Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease .
19 Such a wish , which presumably applies to both men and women , seems as impossible of fulfilment as my determination , ‘ That wo n't be me ’ .
20 In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle .
21 The roots grow huge , sculptural wings to buttress the tree and the climber wraps itself around the lapuna , which slowly decays inside it .
22 It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster .
23 I , even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism , all the time constantly there , it gets beyond a joke , I 've lost friends in the school or I do n't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke .
24 The other lanes show the time course of the dissociation from which it can be seen that there are time dependent changes in the footprinting pattern which eventually becomes like that of the control .
25 From here take the left hand fork which eventually merges into a surfaced minor road leading to the hamlet of Ings ( 3.5 miles ) on the main A591 .
26 Guenelon bears a grudge in his heart , which eventually blossoms into a scheme for revenge .
27 Frictional heat generated along the upper edge of the underthrusting lithospheric slab at depths exceeding 100km leads to the upwelling of magma in an expanding dome within the growing orogenic belt which eventually rises above sea level .
28 Troops storm the Sikh stronghold of the Golden Temple , causing widespread resentment which eventually issues in the assassination of Indira Gandhi .
29 It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in .
30 On leaving the testis , the sperm traverses a tightly coiled convoluted tube , known as the epididymis , which eventually widens into the vas deferens .
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