Example sentences of "[Wh det] use [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Colombian film , which used non-professional actors to portray the lives of Medellin street kids , was so faithful to local speech patterns that one Argentine cinema-goer confessed he had understood a mere 10% of the dialogue . |
| 2 | Consultative approaches are represented by those of Grosz ( 1977 ) and Lockman & Klappholz ( 1980 ) , each of which used global discourse structure as the basis for tracking global focus and hence locating possible candidate referents for evaluation . |
| 3 | A BNFL sponsored conservation award has been won by a company which used extensive landscaping and environmental work in developing a former RAF site . |
| 4 | It all became feasible with the thermionic valve , introduced during WW1 , which rapidly and irrevocably supplanted all other methods of audio amplification , including the electromechanical types ( one of which used compressed air controlled by an electromagnetic air valve ) . |
| 5 | The US administration announced on Nov. 18 that President George Bush had vetoed legislation imposing mandatory trade sanctions on countries which used chemical weapons , or companies which assisted in the development of such weapons . |
| 6 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 7 | Recent studies which used long term recording of colonic motility with a colonoscopically positioned manometric probe , and simultaneous measurement of transit through intraleuminally instilled radiolabelled compounds have provided more detailed information on the relationship of motility to mass movements : ( 1 ) high amplitude propagated contractions ( pressure waves greater than 50 mmHg which are propagated more than 10 cm ) occur infrequently in normal subjects , averaging six per 24 hours . |
| 8 | This is a large-scale analysis which used local authority units in order to define metropolitan economic labour areas ( MELAs ) , of which 126 were identified in Britain . |
| 9 | There were many attempts to devise taxonomies of learning which used particular theories as descriptive of different kinds of learning ( Melton , 1964 ) . |
| 10 | We tested two strategies for reducing the word graph which used different kinds of information . |
| 11 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the University Library and what was then Brighton Public Library and West Sussex all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them and — I am sure they are familiar to lots of people — in the last few years you 'll have seen those holes replaced by sort of zebra stripes erm what are called bar codes in the trade , and those bar codes you 'll also see on your groceries all over the place . |
| 12 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the university library and what was then Brighton Public Library , and West Sussex , all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them , and I am sure they are familiar to lots of people . |
| 13 | This pilot survey will contact previous award-holders of major SSRC/ESRC projects since 1965 which used qualitative interviews , in order |
| 14 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 15 | Simultaneously , imperialist sentiment among the masses was nurtured by the new mass-circulation press which used sensationalized accounts of the dramas of imperial expansion as a way of establishing the habit of newspaper reading among a large and ill-educated public . |
| 16 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 17 | The department also offers a one-year Scandinavian Cultural History course which uses translated materials and therefore requires no knowledge of a Scandinavian language . |
| 18 | Which uses estimated cost . |
| 19 | Indeed , aromatherapy is an art , an aesthetic healing art which uses essential oils extracted from various parts of aromatic plants and trees to promote health of body and serenity of mind . |
| 20 | New York City has a computerised riot control room which uses closed-circuit television cameras to relay detailed information about the movement of riot participants ( Manwaring-White , 1983:90–1 ) . |
| 21 | Right from the very beginning of this extract , where Joan poses a question in LE , and receives a response from Carol which uses Creole vowels in the pronunciation of the surname Lomax , there is a pattern of Carol using more Creole than Joan . |
| 22 | The company will also preview a new multi-processing StarServer E model 660 at the show , which uses multiple Intel Corp 66MHz 80486 DX2 microprocessors . |
| 23 | Access to outside users is via the joint academic network ( JANET ) and in addition a special PC program has been developed which uses standard simulation results to provide a ready reckoner of model responses to changes in policy variables or in the external economic environment . |
| 24 | The pressurized water reactor ( PWR ) predominates in most national nuclear power industries with some notable exceptions , including the UK ( some advanced gas-cooled reactors or AGRs but mostly gas-cooled reactors or GCRs ) , Canada ( the Candu type of reactor which uses heavy water as the coolant ) , and the USSR ( half are of the light-water graphite reactor or LWGR type ) . |
| 25 | The centrepiece of the Corporation Tax project is a computerised model which uses published accounting information as a basis for simulating how much tax individual companies are liable to pay , under the present ( and alternative ) tax systems . |
| 26 | The other is IBM which uses Maximum technology in its product line . |
| 27 | A variation on the camber inducer idea which uses full length battens that split around the mast giving an efficient shape . |
| 28 | The system comes with three components : CODEBREAKER which uses intelligent software to identify hazardous chemical labels , summarize the chemical properties and indicate health risks ; MAP which can display digital and scanned maps of the incident site ; AIR MODEL which is an atmospheric modelling program linked to CODEBREAKER and MAP . |
| 29 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 30 | Yet poetry which uses old phrases is not always bound down to its creator 's intention . |