Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 Education , of course , does not end at the school gates : the home is one of a complex of factors which combine to affect the child 's chances at school .
2 On these pages we review some of the recent commercial successes which combine to form the foundation of our new business .
3 Several genera ( plural of genus ) may be grouped together in a family , several families together in a superfamily , and the superfamilies themselves are clustered into classes , two or more of which combine to make the phylum .
4 In fact , the total rise reflects two separate increases — the first is the actual rise in new additional funds brought in , while the second comprises the increase in existing funds arising from investment performance — which combine to make the whole .
5 In Europe , for example , it is probably worth no more than £30 million with a proportion of this amount relying on Government and other subsidies which tend to inflate the true underlying market size .
6 This loss is both accidental , in the sense of resulting from neglect and omission , and deliberate , in the sense that current social policy is founded on myths and misinformation about family life which tend to polarise the public and private care of children .
7 So I think there are different perspectives which tend to define the issue differently .
8 However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane .
9 This will remove the dead skin cells on the surface of the skin which tend to block the pores causing pigmentation and a dull appearance .
10 It is nature 's version of inductive reasoning : animals learn only cues which tend to predict the imminent arrival of something desirable , like food , and the reliability of the new cue does not need to be by any means perfect .
11 ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability .
12 Following on from such work it was suggested that drugs which tend to increase the activity of acetylcholine might improve learning and memory .
13 In my view legal process embodies some properties which tend to increase the law 's trustworthiness as a moral guide although not one which simply incorporates the moral consensus of ordinary life with the rules of the polity .
14 Sidonius 's writings are verse panegyrics addressed to emperors , and letters : both literary forms which tend to emphasize the traditional values of the senatorial aristocracy and imperial court .
15 For a long time now scientists have been aware of , and occasionally fallen victim to , a myriad of biases and artifacts which tend to falsify the results of factual investigations .
16 The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region .
17 This investigates more fully the nature and scale of the dislocation between trends in the distribution of people and jobs , and examines the barriers which appear to restrict the efficiency of the ‘ matching processes ’ in the labour and housing markets .
18 identify and recommend those whole school strategies which appear to enhance the confidence and achievement of pupils
19 In areas which appear to show the greatest change the probable effect of the fall of Magnentius has been recognized by Professor Keith Branigan , who has drawn attention to the evidence from Boxmoor , Latimer and possibly Welwyn , High Wycombe and Harpsden .
20 The resolution made clear that the Commission ‘ also expresses its grave concern that there are continuing threats to the life of a citizen of another state which appear to have the support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and whose care is mention in the report of the special representative ’ .
21 The other side to the critique , again a common one in the UK , is that public agencies by no means serve the public interest alone but instead indulge in many other activities which appear to benefit the regulators ' Interests rather more .
22 Reviewing the literature of the 1960s , we find a number of schools which appear to challenge the Morgenthau paradigm because they use different concepts .
23 Leading the first contingent will be Japan and Norway , which want to see the current moratorium on commercial whaling lifted .
24 and Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport , both of which act to alkalinise the cell .
25 Simultaneously , there is downregulation of the basolateral transport systems which act to alkalinise the cell : Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport and , possibly , Na + /H + exchange ( although this has been disputed ) .
26 Derived from policies which seek to preserve the landscape qualities of the English countryside , such estates have more often contributed to its deterioration .
27 There are a number of models which seek to explain the components and implications of different approaches to leadership which may actually serve to compound the problem :
28 When functionalists attempt to explain systems of social stratification , they set their explanations in the framework of larger theories which seek to explain the operation of society as a whole .
29 In this chapter , we have outlined the main theories which seek to explain the aggregate levels of consumption and investment .
30 It is vitally important , if we are to improve the mathematical attainment of our society , that the educational purposes of formative and diagnostic assessment , which seek to improve the teaching , take precedence over the monitoring and evaluative purposes , which at best merely seek to describe .
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