Example sentences of "[Wh det] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative to the scanning hypothesis of laterality differences in tachistoscopic recognition is that , with unilateral stimulus presentation at least , words ( Terrace , 1959 ) and letters ( Bryden , 1966 ) and material for which a verbal label is readily available ( Wyke and Ettlinger , 1961 ; Bryden and Rainey , 1963 ) are more accurately recognised in the right visual field as a consequence of the more direct neural pathway from the right than from the left side of fixation to language areas of the left cerebral hemisphere . |
| 2 | The only situation in which a verbal protest is acceptable is when the wrong contestants have been called , or when an administrative error has clearly been made . |
| 3 | There is , however , another way in which a useful advance might be made . |
| 4 | Along the way you 'll pass medieval castles , vineyards , great towns and the infamous Loreley Rock from which a dark mermaid is said to have lured mariners to their death ( your cruise should successfully navigate the rock as the mermaid appears to have gone into retirement ) . |
| 5 | The soot-black metal of the stoves was carved with grotesque faces from which a dark heat beat out at Quiss . |
| 6 | If the burst originates from a source a distance R from the Earth in which a total mass M is converted to gravitational radiation , we have . |
| 7 | The above are all classic instruments by which a Prime Minister can outmanoeuvre the Cabinet . |
| 8 | It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign . |
| 9 | Since then , however , monarchs have confined themselves almost exclusively to expressing views and preferences of which a Prime Minister might care to take note . |
| 10 | Yet it is a remarkable example of the way in which a Prime Minister may in certain circumstances be appointed almost by accident . |
| 11 | While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion . |
| 12 | Fasting was maintained for a further 2 hours , after which a normal diet was permitted . |
| 13 | Lady Roscarrock watched this performance without any sign of amusement or compassion , and after a lengthy silence in which a mutual appraisal took place , gave a great sigh and said , " Well ? |
| 14 | Consider an actual case , the way in which a long-tailed tit makes a strong , cryptic and well-insulated place in which to lay eggs . |
| 15 | A purchase or redemption by a company of its own shares increases the percentage which a remaining block of shares represents and can result in a shareholder or group of shareholders obtaining control of that company . |
| 16 | Between 1981 and 1988 , over 1,000 people took part in a Body Age Study in which a principal objective was to determine the degree of difference between people 's chronological and biological ages . |
| 17 | The speech sounds that stimulate these organs are then converted into a neural signal from which a phonetic representation equivalent to the one into which the speaker encoded his message is obtained . |
| 18 | Starting from Birkdale Summit , an initial detour may be made to look into the open shaft of Jingling Pot nearby , after which a pathless course must be steered south-west across tedious grass to reach and climb the rough slopes building up to the Edge . |
| 19 | We can distinguish two main kinds : ( a ) an emphasis on the ‘ informing spirit ’ of a whole way of life , which is manifest over the whole range of social activities but is most evident in ‘ specifically cultural ’ activities — a language , styles of art , kinds of intellectual work ; and ( b ) an emphasis on ‘ a whole social order ’ within which a specifiable culture , in styles of art and kinds of intellectual work , is seen as the direct or indirect product of an order primarily constituted by other social activities . |
| 20 | He was , as a bacteriologist , interested in the microbiological aspects , and as an enthusiast for technical methods , in the use of Penicillium extracts to make selective culture media ( i.e. media in which a required organisms will grow readily while unwanted contaminants fail either through lack of an essential nutrient or because something is present which stops them ) . |
| 21 | This is the first occasion on which a Roman horde in Britain has been correctly excavated and much new information about the burial of such treasures is expected as a result . |
| 22 | The following year Mazarin commissioned Francesco Buti , the librettist of Rossi 's Orfeo , to recruit Italian singers and write another work , Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti , for which a Roman composer Carlo Caproli supplied the music and in which the dancers included not only Lully but the 15-year-old Louis XIV who was full of admiration for him . |
| 23 | The case , in which a fellow patient has denied manslaughter , is one of a number which prompted ministers to commission a study by top psychiatrist Dr William Boyd Boy hurt : Michael Brown , 11 , of East Street , Crookhall , Consett , County Durham , was taken to Shotley Bridge Hospital with a fractured shoulder and broken right leg after apparently riding his scooter into the path of a Vauxhall Astra car in nearby Second Street . |
| 24 | Ionization is the process by which a fast-moving quantity of energy is transferred , leaving them as electrically charged ions . |
| 25 | Telford 's canals took a much more direct course than Brindley 's , and so involved much more dramatic engineering , of which a splendid example is the bridge over the deep cutting near Tyrley , on the Shropshire Union Canal . |
| 26 | Eqn ( 4.34 ) is of course true for any closed circuit upon which a time-varying voltage is impressed . |
| 27 | Or , further , is it possible to incorporate in the framework of the state itself some provision or institution by which a governmental act or command ultra vires may be declared to be such , and subjects therefore exempted from its operation and released from any legal obligation to observe or obey it ? |
| 28 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 29 | A fire would always be an easy thing from which a superhuman creature like the monster could escape . |
| 30 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |