Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of 1910 , complete plans for a standard ambulance train had been drawn up and sent to all the main companies , all of whom agreed to supply one or more in the event of war , to the Wolverton Works specification . |
| 2 | Age hopes its early move will gain it market support ahead of competitors such as Leeds , UK-based Visionware Ltd and Ontorio , Canada-based Hummingbird Communications Ltd , both of whom intend to release similar 32-bit products once NT emerges . |
| 3 | Curran also revealed that the Dublin soccer writers , most of whom appear to have written-off Derry 's challenge , have provided the motivation that might just make the difference . |
| 4 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 5 | When the results became known the party leader , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , met with the single member of a small centre-right party , Democratic Renewal ( Komma Dimokratikis Ananeosis — DIANA ) , who agreed to give external support to an ND government to break the deadlock and avoid a fourth general election . |
| 6 | In 1989 , the federal government unveiled a three-year ‘ humanitarian aid ’ package , which provided $30,000 annually to blood-transfused HIV-infected persons who agreed to waive federal liability in the tainted-blood scandal . |
| 7 | Before clearing out my desk at the Times-Herald I had a quiet word with Fred Workman who agreed to accept free-lance stories from me . |
| 8 | REM sleep is thus even more clearly associated with dreaming in so-called " non-dreamers " than regular dreamers , who tend to report dreaming whenever they 're woken up ! |
| 9 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 10 | The only people who tend to disregard this very practical and helpful arrangement are lawyers appointed as commissioners of public inquiries . |
| 11 | This somewhat anthropocentric , ‘ managerial ’ approach to nature is in sharp contrast to that of the ‘ idealists ’ in the environmental movement who tend to advocate total protection for threatened species and habitats , de-industrialisation , and a return to non-intensive methods of food production . |
| 12 | These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size . |
| 13 | First of all , they suggest that it may be possible to identify those people at risk of depression , that is , those who tend to make global , stable and internal attributions for failure , before they become depressed . |
| 14 | To adopt ‘ one person , one vote ’ would be a democratic move but it offends trade unions by weakening their local influence and it undermines the position of Left-wing activists who tend to dominate many local parties . |
| 15 | These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles . |
| 16 | When I mentioned his name in Hawaii an informant who asked to remain anonymous said : ‘ Johnny Boy Gomes is the meanest , heaviest dude on the whole of the North Shore . ’ |
| 17 | Orlov and others engineered factional strife in the Ministry of State Properties which in April 1857 led to the appointment as minister of M. N. Murav'ev , a man who believed that " the question [ of emancipation ] had been dreamed up by … academics , theoreticians , [ and ] sons of priests ' and who planned to treat state-owned peasants as harshly as serfs . |
| 18 | The main opponents in the land-use battles were the Allegheny Community College and a local developer who planned to build subsidised apartments with 25 per cent reserved for handicapped residents . |
| 19 | Mhm so I mean well it it 's gon na be an archive and maybe people can who want to analyse everyday language can get tape recordings from it and er y'know perhaps it can be used in scholarship , perhaps it can be used in socio-linguistics or whatever . |
| 20 | He loved clubs and wardrooms with the pre-dinner drinks , the discreet signing of chitties , the smiling elderly waiters ( from a class almost extinct now , men who lived to serve other men ) . |
| 21 | Another argument used by those who favour restricting public expenditure is that it must be cut in order to limit the growth of money supply and to curb inflation . |
| 22 | It is both unfair and unrealistic to expect those who remain to make further sacrifices in order to service the sensibilities of visitors . |
| 23 | Toensure those who hadnot had recent oral cholecystectographies or ultrasonagraphy studies were still gall stone free , these investigations were repeated not more than six weeks before trial entry . |
| 24 | Swings were highest amongst voters who watched both BBC and ITV news , and amongst those who avoided watching highbrow television news programmes , but the differences between these groups of television viewers were slight . |
| 25 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 26 | Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards . |
| 27 | Collective security necessarily imposed obligations on all nation states , powerful and weak alike , to respect each other 's separate identity and autonomy , and to sanction any member who failed to respect such obligations . |
| 28 | If these non-compliant patients who failed to tolerate four weeks of elemental feeding are taken into account , then just 45% ( 10 of 22 ) patients originally randomised to receive four weeks of elemental diet achieved complete remission on diet alone . |
| 29 | In the epinephrine group , the only case who failed to achieve initial haemostasis received surgical intervention . |
| 30 | Ferguson , who failed to land 16-goal Alan Shearer and bought Dion Dublin — only for him to break a leg — is also thought to be watching Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson . |