Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is both the ‘ dear deceit ’ which goes back centuries and the curse peculiar to modern-day society . |
| 2 | Silver plants usually have a thick coating of felty fur which slows down evaporation . |
| 3 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 4 | You die a thousand casual deaths — with none of that intensity which squeezes out life … and no blood runs cold anywhere . |
| 5 | Like Rangers , there is a rhythm to Raith 's play which grinds out results even when the team is n't playing particularly well . |
| 6 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 7 | Musically it 's just the right side of being cheap — lyrically it 's got a depth to it which cries out Secrets ! |
| 8 | It is difficult to put forward a programme which holds out hope of a better life when you have singularly failed to live up to your promises during your term of office . |
| 9 | The top 20pc of households receive an income ( £786 ) 10 times greater than the poorest 20pc , which lives off £73 a week , with the richest 20pc spending £165.30 a person more than twice as much as the poorest 20pc , who spend £62.50 per person . |
| 10 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 11 | Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved . |
| 12 | After 50yds fork right onto a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe . |
| 13 | Here we have the apocalyptic naturalism which marks out Dostoevsky absolutely , and in this area too , though we shall find an overreliance upon the Epilogue , Crime and Punishment follows the Katkov letter while breathing life into its dry and sketchy determinism . |
| 14 | The 16-tonnes Shear Pack is the remotely controlled machine which cuts up fuel assemblies ready for the next stage in reprocessing , the chemical separation of the various elements . |
| 15 | The vast majority were fitted with the more complex three-way converter , which cuts down emissions of carbon monoxide , nitrous oxides and hydrocarbons . |
| 16 | And the special easy to carry plastic bottle comes with a handy pourer which cuts out mess . |
| 17 | More than Dm300 million was set aside for future environmental protection measures , and stocks were valued according to the ‘ last in , first out ’ principle , which cuts out paper profit ( and thus reduces taxable profit ) when prices rise . |
| 18 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 19 | After that , and perhaps to catch the voice at its fullest as recorded , the eighth disc , the ‘ Blow the wind Southerly ’ offering , which shows off Ferrier at her most relaxed with several examples of her gift at projecting humour . |
| 20 | In the plan , British Telecom would install videodisc players at the point in a cable system which links up subscribers TV sets . |
| 21 | The best known of these are zeolite , which takes up ammonia ; and charcoal , which will not remove any part of the nitrogen cycle chemicals but will purify the water of many of the unpleasant things that arrive unwanted through the tap including chlorine , and remove tinges of colour from the water . |
| 22 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 23 | As more results have come in , the details of Lynch 's model have become enriched , but in an early version , constructed with his long-term collaborator Michel Baudry , the effect of the calcium was supposed to activate an enzyme present in the postsynaptic site which breaks down proteins . |
| 24 | How about , say , the needle-thin candiru fish , which swims up trails of urine and , when it gets to where it 's going , opens up like an umbrella … [ that 's enough candiru fish — Ed … ] |
| 25 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 26 | Oil company officials said that they were excited at the new possibilities which opens up territory equivalent in size to the oil-producing state of Texas . |
| 27 | Spring snow has a low-friction surface which opens up acres of gentle offpiste perhaps not steep enough to ski when powder-covered . |
| 28 | The consumer 's physical safety is considered in the Consumer Safety Act , 1978 , which draws up regulations to minimise risks to consumers from potentially dangerous products , such as oil heaters , electric blankets and certain children 's toys . |
| 29 | Even so , the committee is unlikely to match the surprises of the ‘ alternative ’ Nobel prizes , awarded yesterday by the Right Livelihood Society , which singles out ecologically-sound solutions to problems . |
| 30 | Mr Ferman said previous computer games have not been covered by the 1984 Video Recordings Act , which lays down criteria for rating videos . |