Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stems from the conflict in land use that arises whenever land of nature conservation value faces alternative and more commercially rewarding uses . |
| 2 | As Keane says ‘ How do we guarantee the survival and future growth of democracy … the troubling paradox is the growing respectability of democracy has turned out to be a disappointing affair — ; certainly if democracy means a pluralistic system of power wherein decisions of concern to collectives of various others within civil society and the state are made directly or indirectly by their members ’ . |
| 3 | Acid hydrolysis was performed wherein samples of effluent were incubared with hydrochloric acid ( 1.0 mol/l ) for two hours at 100°C . |
| 4 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 5 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 6 | The establishment of the Foundation for Paper Research last August initiated a programme whereby certificates of authenticity , under the control of a board of trustees , are issued with every Rembrandt print passing through the Foundation . |
| 7 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 8 | The sequences of co-ordinates are transformed into vector chain codes ( Freeman , 1961 ) whereby changes of direction in the strokes of the pen are converted into a numbered code . |
| 9 | The needs of war taxation in the fourteenth century , and the contribution which the custom on wool made to this , had led to the growth of a system whereby sales of wool had to be made through a staple town , sometimes in England and sometimes abroad . |
| 10 | In the view of the College , relying on professional judgement is entirely appropriate , whereby differences of assessment arrived at by individuals can be compared and the assessors requested to justify their proposals ; thus enabling agreement on an optimum solution . |
| 11 | This was a good example of the Fohn effect , whereby descent of air in the lee of hills warms and dries the atmosphere . |
| 12 | In the wild , fungi are part of the ‘ death and decay ’ complex whereby tissues of animal and plant origin are broken down biologically to their component nitrogenous and other chemical constituents . |
| 13 | The only mode of change in the rules known to such a society will be the slow process of growth , whereby courses of conduct once thought optional become first habitual or usual , and then obligatory , and the converse process of decay , when deviations , once severely dealt with , are first tolerated and then pass unnoticed . |
| 14 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 15 | In this way , social network gives us a model for demonstrating how states of language are maintained through normative consensus within the communities , leaving external influences out of the argument at this stage . |
| 16 | By now I 'd read about how exhausting flight could be and how birds of prey used warm air currents — known as thermals — to lift them without using up too much energy , and here they were , doing just that over the rocks by Tintagel Castle . |
| 17 | The government has published a discussion document on climate change which sets out a series of options on how emissions of greenhouse gases can be reduced . |
| 18 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 19 | Other feminists , like Mitchell ( 1974 ) and Coward ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , have tried to tie Lacanian psychoanalysis to social relations , by interpreting it as a descriptive account of how discourses of femininity and masculinity are reproduced , through language , in our conscious and unconscious subjectivities . |
| 20 | Hollway , focusing on how discourses of gender produce unconscious splits in relationships between women and men , recognizes that these discourses are more socially specific than her account is able to detail . |
| 21 | How Loss of Confidence Maintains Anxiety |
| 22 | Hall describes how indicators of geoscience research can lead to the creation of an index which can be used to gauge the rate , level of development , and impact , of a particular field . |
| 23 | By examining changes in various genres , course participants will be able to trace how images of masculinity have reflected and/or affected developments in society at large . |
| 24 | We 're not saying the figure 's necessarily excessive , we 're simply looking to see how regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account , if at all . |
| 25 | Since the principal function of grammar is to indicate how units of meaning are to be combined , this is scarcely surprising . |
| 26 | Yet at the same time it created a potential new ‘ problem ’ with regard to how ownership of land was to be transferred . |
| 27 | Although that curriculum is often represented as diminishing teachers ' choices and initiatives , it is important for heads and their colleagues to note how matters of culture which have many facets can be handled alongside a national concern that schools should be more readily comparable with each other and should be readily accountable , not least in their pupils ' attainment levels . |
| 28 | However , his analysis fails to consider fully how experiences of unemployment and thus poverty associated with unemployment are gender-specific ( Callender , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Alternatively , a separate provision can be included in the terms indicating how periods of time are to be calculated . |
| 30 | She will gain entrance to the text through a consideration of how articles of clothing function for women and for men . |