Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 2 | Partly because of this problem , it is useful to define a more general concept , transray convexity , which involves considering bundles of two ( for simplicity ) goods consisting of different proportions . |
| 3 | THE TURNOVER of the Bruges Group is about £200,000 per annum , most of which goes on publications , travel expenses and salaries ( Robertson earns a modest £8,500 , with accommodation paid for ) . |
| 4 | Which goes for straights as well as gays . |
| 5 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 6 | Sanderson Townend & Gilbert has let 113/115 Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , to Catchlord which trades as Barnacles . |
| 7 | The inverted file will have an index which points to lists of certain types of record . |
| 8 | Which points in lines 1–20 are relevant to each of these three tasks ? |
| 9 | A Physical Quality of Life Index , which refers to indices of infant mortality , life expectancy at age one , and adult literacy shows an improvement for all the seventeen Latin American countries to which the index was applied in the period from 1950 to the mid-1970s . |
| 10 | However the vast majority of students entering higher education do so on the basis of Highers or A-levels , and a definition of non-traditional which refers to students entering on the basis of qualifications other than the minimum prescribed Highers or A-levels or equivalent qualifications seems to be the most useful one . |
| 11 | The previous act was in nineteen seventy , and indeed it was called ‘ The Handicapped Children Act ’ , but this year , in fact at the end of this year , there was a new act passed ‘ The Education Act of Nineteen Eighty One ’ , which refers to children with special educational needs , so we 're really dealing with the same group , but describing them somewhat differently . |
| 12 | ‘ Empirical ’ , in this context , simply means ‘ based on evidence from the real world ’ in contrast to ‘ theoretical ’ , which refers to ideas that are abstract or purely analytical . |
| 13 | Every three months the library produces a bibliography which refers by categories to longer articles held in the library . |
| 14 | A greater self-development ethic is needed which builds on entitlements and responsibilities " ( CBI 1990 : 21 ) . |
| 15 | Since that case was decided , the nature of constitutional guarantees has subtly changed in the constitution of the United Kingdom , which has since become a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 11 of which guarantees to citizens of the signatory countries a right to freedom of assembly . |
| 16 | But it is only available in Russia in liquid form , which turns to globules which are difficult to swallow in space . |
| 17 | In partnership , which is ‘ the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit ’ , every partner is an agent of the firm and of the other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership . |
| 18 | Partnership is the relationship which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit . |
| 19 | And at the same time , she must distinguish her own from that which belongs to others , separate it , examine it and , if necessary , cherish it , as she must cherish anything which tells her who she is , anything which belongs to her alone . |
| 20 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 21 | Hence , we shall accept as evidence of the presence of a rule a recurrent semantic contrast between senses , that is to say , a contrast which holds between senses associated with at least two different lexical forms . |
| 22 | In presenting the traditional semantic view of reference , Lyons ( I968 : 404 ) says that ‘ the relationship which holds between words and things is the relationship of reference : words refer to things ’ . |
| 23 | The best non-human example that I know has recently been described by P. F. Jenkins in the song of a bird called the saddleback which lives on islands off New Zealand . |
| 24 | One of the most remarkable accounts of collaboration in mammals comes from recent research by Olwyn Rasa ( 1977 ) on the dwarf mongoose ( Helogale ) , which lives in colonies in arid parts of Africa , often burrowing a refuge in the base of a termitarium . |
| 25 | This apparently magical gift is actually provided by the palolo , a tropical relative of the lugworm , which lives in crevices in coral . |
| 26 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 27 | Pride is one thing : a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . ’ |
| 28 | Where the treeline is sharply defined it may hardly exist at all ; more often it is a narrow band of forest-tundra , in which stands of trees alternate with dense shrubby tundra . |
| 29 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 30 | There is also a large and venerable literature on the nature and purposes of higher education , which rings with names such as Newman , Veblen , Ortega y Gasset , and Jaspers [ see Powell 's bibliography ( 1966 , 1971 ) , and there have been many more recent examples but such writing likewise tends to be rather general , and only by extension addresses the question of what is to be taught in curricular terms ; but see Goodlad 1976 ; Barnett 1985 ] . |