Example sentences of "[Wh det] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 3 | In an attempt to define the basis on which a comprehensive GIS user environment could be built Rhind et al. ( 1989 ) proposed the Universal Geographic Information eXecutive ( UGIX ) as a system design . |
| 4 | Money of any currency which a Firm holds or receives for or from a client and which is not immediately due and payable on demand to the firm for its own account and money held by the firm as stakeholder . |
| 5 | The warning follows a string of incidents including one in which a five years old child burned down the family home , killing his sister , after watching cartoon characters playing with fire . |
| 6 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 7 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 8 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 9 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 10 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 12 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 13 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 14 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 15 | That has limited his appearances in top championships , which a world-beater needs in the final sharpening up process . |
| 16 | Citilend Ltd v Stuart Craggs provides an example of a case in which a haulier finds himself sued for a commercial misdemeanour — hire purchase default — in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 17 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 18 | The effect of a change in the relative spot prices , the present value of dividends and the risk-free interest rate on the spread basis is given by partially differentiating this equation with respect to ( S L - S s ) , D L , D s and r to get : The effect of an increase in the difference in the spot prices or an increase in the dividends on the asset in which a short futures position has been taken is ( given F L > F s ) a widening of the difference between the prices of the underlying assets . |
| 19 | What a shaggy dogs story . |
| 20 | Exactly what a celibate clergy needs . |
| 21 | I , I think all these , all these people in local government and things , and eh , it was obvious when , you see adverts for jobs , what a bloody salaries there paying them , for a mediocre job . |
| 22 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 23 | Does it really matter what a few politicians or academics say ? |
| 24 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |
| 25 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 26 | Lord Scarman rejected current medical practice as the test for what a patient needs to know and asserted the patient 's right to know based on self-determination . |