Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As part of the service , which involves a £250 fee and either one per cent of the purchase price or 15 per cent of any reduction of the asking price he negotiates , they are helped , to analyse their needs , expectations and priorities .
2 Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ .
3 I am aware of the article to which my hon. Friend refers , which involves a case that was tried in Israel , and of the fact that , apparently , KGB records recently made available in Moscow suggest that there was mistaken identification .
4 However , he said the whole project , which involves a range of authorities from Tendring District Council to English Nature , could take up to ten years to complete .
5 For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s .
6 Typically , this could occur in the context of a bona fide business reorganisation , which involves a change in your terms of employment .
7 The ‘ dialogic ’ , which involves a plurality of voices , was particularly characteristic of the novel .
8 We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language .
9 Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables .
10 An argument can certainly be made that , since it is the very characteristics of nuclear weapons which make their use illegal , any deployment of nuclear weapons which involves a threat of their use is an illegal threat of force .
11 Applying these criteria , it seems to me that the type of deployment of nuclear weapons which can most clearly be argued to entail an illegal threat of force is one which involves a threat of first use of nuclear weapons .
12 ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter .
13 The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee .
14 Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues .
15 Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues .
16 Her company operates the NAFD scheme , which involves a lump sum being paid into a trust in advance .
17 There is also an increasing trend towards agroforestry which involves a combination of tree and agricultural crops ; the silvicultural component may be used to provide a crop and to ensure environmental protection .
18 And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag !
19 A regime called Training By Assignment , which involves a period of learning followed by practical application , is being used increasingly at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby , UK .
20 Consider this extract , which involves a sequence of short sentences ( we have added numbers to make the sentences easier to identify ) : ( 1 ) Both Brontë and Hardy choose to present their heroine within an organic structure .
21 Most neural nets search by some process which involves a form of convergence by successive approximations .
22 This is the appeal which involves a review of an existing line of authority without any reconsideration of it .
23 However , SAG has been forced to wind down work on its two major development projects , the persistent SQL function , which involves an SQL statement being compiled and stored using a high performance compiler , and datatypes strategy for two-phase commit .
24 See thus evokes the apprehension of a fact , something which involves an interpretation of the external symptoms captured by the senses : from what he can see , the speaker has concluded that Mrs Bonner is breaking visibly .
25 It aims to show that closely related to the objective of resurrecting conservative social policies is a political method which involves an attempt to change Britain 's political landscape .
26 It is the purpose of this book to show that there is a possible meaning to the historical word ‘ god ’ , which involves an amalgamation into one central understanding , of all the known facts of evolution with many of the manifestations of unexplained mysteries which also affect human life .
27 The tempered finesse of mime imbued with scatty humour which renders an audience helpless .
28 There is a body , the National League against the Venereal Diseases , which receives a grant from the government and organizes lectures in schools , prisons , and to the army , but it is clear that their efforts have little effect on the prevalence of disease .
29 Any branch which receives a gift or donation of this size and does not have the necessary forms should contact its regional office , or the headquarters Fund Raising Department , for advice on increasing the value of the donation even more — at the taxman 's expense !
30 As at Tockington , the type C arrangement at Halstock is associated with another mosaic which displays a saltire design , ( although it should be noted that the latter appear to be of a finer standard than the former ) .
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