Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 2 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 3 | The review proposes a national insurance contribution ‘ holiday ’ to employers who recruit the long-term unemployed , although it admits that the Treasury would probably veto the plan . |
| 4 | These listen to appeals against official decisions by people who dispute the official interpretation of their rights . |
| 5 | The changes proposed by your correspondent , as well as by Polly Toynbee in her book Lost Children , could well add to the increasing number of children in our society who lack a strong family background provided by two married parents . |
| 6 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
| 7 | Indeed , Terence Hawkes has defined and defended what he calls ‘ paperback research ’ as a proper activity for those who lack the scholarly resources of the ancient universities . |
| 8 | Mature students who lack the requisite O-levels or GCSEs can opt to sit an alternative entrance test , although there is some confusion over the purpose of such tests . |
| 9 | The six-year course ( intended principally for non-Science pupils at school ) is provided for well-qualified students who lack the requisite subjects for entry to the five-year course ( see the Table of Admissions Requirements ) . |
| 10 | They make nonsense of the aspirations of developing countries , who not only lack the funds available to some American schools in the 1960s but who lack the meagre finances spared to education in Britain in her declining 19705 . |
| 11 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 12 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 13 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 14 | After all , it may be in the interests of some people , especially those who introduce the new technology , not to admit to the existence of the real forces that shape the direction of technical change . |
| 15 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 16 | According to Skoglund and others who fear the environmental impact of the project , the Pa Mong dam , the first of several proposed , will disrupt the annual flood cycle downstream and thereby threaten one of the world 's largest inland fishing grounds and one of Asia 's most productive agricultural regions . |
| 17 | Perhaps even more vociferous concerns have been expressed by nurses and para-medic groups who fear the medical domination of the current structuring of clinical directorates . |
| 18 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 19 | Prizes will be awarded for those who raise the most money . |
| 20 | The objective at every stage of lobbying is to provide comments and reactions to those who influence the legislative process . |
| 21 | Those who favour a tighter regime are just as unhappy about the EC 's approach to date . |
| 22 | Some journalists who favour a cooler and more distant approach to reporting would say that he is too close to his subject ; anyone who levels this criticism normally does so from the security of a desk . |
| 23 | The centrist sector , who favour a middle way , is opposed to repression and violence whether it is from right or left . |
| 24 | Prominent at the moment are the groups Avia , who use Sov-art from 20s and 30s , Pop Mechanics of S. Kurjehin who favour a multi- media show which employs symphonic , rock choiral , folk and live animals , and finally Auction who have a surrealistic cabaret style . |
| 25 | As to the rest of the disc , it 's perhaps fair to state that Klemperer 's Johann Strauss will not please those who favour a relaxed ‘ Wienerisch ’ approach to such music , but there can surely be few complaints about the Mendelssohn . |
| 26 | The two do not always go together and experts who combine the two are in short supply . |
| 27 | Apart from some rudimentary agriculture , and the building and sailing of prahus , Bira 's only other income was earned by the village 's four intrepid python-hunters , led by Rindi , who sell the live snakes for their valuable skins to Chinese traders up the coast . |
| 28 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 29 | Thus a program was written which , given a suggested set of grade boundaries , would evaluate their effects in terms of : ( i ) the numbers of staff by " before " and " after " grade ; ( ii ) the overall percentage upgrading and downgrading ; ( iii ) the percentage changes by grade ( that is the percentage of staff in each " before " grade who are upgraded , who remain the same grade and who are downgraded ) . |
| 30 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |