Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are surely witnessing is the effect on these people of the ‘ divinity which doth hedge a king ’ , which may be translated more prosaically as the persistent flattery and adulation with which kings were treated — and in France , it seems , not only kings , but their children . |
| 2 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 3 | finally , the node information can be perturbed only once , which involves creating a node table into which the perturbed nodes are stored as they are read in , and from which they can be retrieved in later references to the same node . |
| 4 | Old-style publishing was based around retail sheet-music sales , but current publishing is a banking operation which involves taking a risk on an artist . |
| 5 | The church may however avoid tax by a relatively straightforward — and well tried — method , which involves establishing a trading company ( Tradeco ) in which the church holds all the issued share capital . |
| 6 | A similar situation arises in any task which involves finding an easiest solution . |
| 7 | One of partners is Stores who are implementing a strategic store-based application which involves having an R S six thousand in every single shop with a SQL Server on every single box . |
| 8 | These mathematical concepts are obviously rather well suited to represent the physical idea of superposition , which involves adding a bit of this to a bit of that . |
| 9 | Hauser and Ernst ( 1979 , 1980 ) developed a method which involves solving a homogeneous Hilbert problem . |
| 10 | It is this procedure , which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy , that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists , but , fortunately , is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists . |
| 11 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 12 | Even though there is in Layarion 's Brut no expression of " religious belief " or " moral intention " , there can be no doubt that " the writer is a man of a high and generous nature , with a true reverence for whatsoever things are lovely and of good report , and rich in every human quality which goes to make a man and a poet " . |
| 13 | If a dispute arose over , for example , which questions to ask an interviewee , the ensuing discussion polarised pupils into groups that did not correspond to their schools . |
| 14 | Women comprise the vast majority of the market workforce , which has represented an important political force of the opposition movement in this century . |
| 15 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 16 | And they insist that the decision to ban God Save The Queen , which has provoked a storm of patriotic protests , was not influenced by the ANC . |
| 17 | Mr Clark insisted he was completely innocent in the affair , which has provoked a political storm , engulfing even the Prime Minister in allegations that the Government had encouraged firms to breach the arms embargo . |
| 18 | In some ways the new Act is something which has provoked a lot of discussion . |
| 19 | One important theoretical characteristic of logogens which has stimulated a great deal of experimentation is that they mediate priming effects in word recognition , i.e. the faster recognition of a word following previous recent exposure to that word . |
| 20 | The defence minister of Syria , which has sent a division of tanks to help Saudi Arabia , admits to having felt ‘ overwhelming joy ’ at the missile attacks on ‘ occupied Palestine ’ . |
| 21 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |
| 22 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 23 | That forecast , from party sources and from the intelligence bureau , which has become a wing of the Prime Minister 's office , was crucial in the timing of the election , at least a month before it was expected . |
| 24 | Now , it is Kingfisher which has become a favourite — not because the people at the helm have great shopkeeping flair but because their cautious and unflamboyant management style has created a retailing empire of solid reliability . |
| 25 | The Australian Federal Police are saying little about the affair , which has become a national scandal , but they have admitted the discovery of illegal bugs on the phones of Mr Robert Holmes a Court , Sydney stockbroker Mr Peter Burrows and a leading Australian financial journalist , Mr Terry McCran of the Melbourne Herald , a trenchant critic of the Bond Corporation . |
| 26 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
| 27 | Each work extends the ‘ augury ’ of Finnegans Wake : each work is a postmodernist paradigm , a prophecy of the self-reflexive foregrounding of language and fiction-making which has become a central , distinguishing characteristic of postmodernism . |
| 28 | The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly . |
| 29 | So Herbert Chapman established a pattern in relations between directors and manager which has become a feature of many of the major clubs , where the only veto on the manager 's power is the sack if he fails to bring results . |
| 30 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |