Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two key aspects of government emphasized in the Crossman diaries are the difficulties facing a minister with departmental responsibilities who tries to take an overall view of government policies as a whole , and the related tendency for ministers to take narrowly departmental views which sabotage interdepartmental co-operation .
2 Walks are scheduled to take place all over the country taking routes which highlight various problems which have arisen from landowners denying access to the countryside .
3 Several theoretical positions have been developed to analyse local politics , broadly grouped into those which highlight local autonomy , and those which stress the role of national government and non-local determinants of change .
4 VMAP reports will give an indication of response/turnaround times for certain transactions , and these may be useful for showing trends which highlight potential problems .
5 I am grateful to the BBC and independent TV stations for regular broadcasts which highlight conservation matters .
6 Speakers were asked to address such questions as : the possibility of delineating a discrete and distinctive popular culture ; the usefulness of conceiving culture as discourse or as an arena of social change ; the forces which engender long-term changes in popular culture .
7 Many of these management structures and processes have long histories — quality circles and Japanese corporate practice are two trends which influence current thinking in business management aspirations , expectations and structures .
8 It examines some of the factors which influence industrial buying and purchase behaviour .
9 Something about the factors which influence multi-nat location decisions .
10 Biotechnology has an extremely wide range of applications in agriculture , among which are crop improvement , biological control of pests and the enhancement of nitrogen fixation , all of which influence environmental quality .
11 Cognition theories , which emphasise internal functions such as perception and understanding and see learning in terms of the organisation of mental connections which influence future performance .
12 At work here are what Ashworth calls the ‘ ingrained attitudes ’ — which could equally well be termed ideologies — which influence sentencing decisions .
13 Firstly , managers involved in R & D investment decisions will be interviewed to seek their views on factors which influence these decisions and whether they are affected by the way this investment is accounted for .
14 It also outlines the company 's intention to participate in committees which influence legislative developments affecting packaging in the environment .
15 The example shows how a system which can be in one of two states can be simulated , and how the results of these simulations can be used to gain some understanding of system behaviour and of the controls which influence this behaviour .
16 For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into .
17 This is a powerful explanation because it succeeds in linking the fact of there being a restriction on sexuality in religions which preach brotherly love to all mankind , especially Christianity , Islam and Buddhism .
18 One of the lessons to be drawn from the study of early-twentieth-century imperialism is the extraordinary durability of policies and programmes which lack all possibility of being realised .
19 Given the terms " subject " and " content " , which lack close definitions , it would perhaps be yet more audacious to speak of logical or conceptual dependency .
20 At the beginning of the year , the Dutch government bowed to consumer pressure and banned all imports of tropical hardwood from countries which lack effective forestry management schemes .
21 The company is aiming squarely at the market targeted by 3Com Corp with its boundary router : small outposts of large organisations , which lack local network support .
22 First , one begins to question the need for frequent rote regurgitation of words which lack intrinsic interest .
23 Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth .
24 This is almost an inversion of the procedure examined below in the case of similes which introduce underlexicalised terms used with special meanings in the fiction .
25 Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies .
26 The idea of class conflict has been the bane of serious medieval social history ; for it obscures the very powerful forces which unite local communities , whatever their social complexion ; and because it parodies the nature of medieval conflict .
27 Some professions require you to seek further qualifications which entail another period of full-time study .
28 It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look .
29 It is important that the branch broadcasts clearly visible messages which advertise interested members of the public of the existence of CPRW and the work it is doing .
30 These differences in land values ( which mean higher rents or higher prices for land or houses ) provide the mechanism by which different groups are distributed throughout the urban area , often in the form of circles radiating out from the centre .
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