Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 2 | That trend is demonstrated in a sales bonanza which saw 142,000 people in the UK opting for a diesel car in the first half of this year . |
| 3 | In its pure form , models are logically derived and then tested on historical data but I also include here most forms of quantitative research which use such data to test predefined hypotheses . |
| 4 | Because of their training doctors are often sceptical of anything other than formal clinical trials and research which produces statistical data . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , fighting between the rival Christian units continued ; on April 18 a school bus travelling through East Beirut was hit in crossfire which killed 11 people , mostly children . |
| 6 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 7 | An interesting comment on the background to this is provided by a statement from the Managing Director of Nor Fran Aluminium which employs 60 people on the Chirton Estate . |
| 8 | So far they 've managed to isolate an ingredient which kills human sperm extremely quickly and efficiently . |
| 9 | Missionaries were trained in monasteries , their schools and libraries were vital to the educational effort ( the learning of Charlemagne 's court school had been quickly dispersed to monasteries ) , their rules of life became yardsticks of Christian living which influenced lay people , and their pioneering character as landlords and organizers of economic wealth should not be overlooked . |
| 10 | The head of the intussusception was found to be an ileal polyp just proximal to the ileocaecal valve which measured 4.5 cm with a 1.5 cm stalk . |
| 11 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
| 12 | MND is a muscle wasting condition which kills three people in the UK each day : there is , currently , no treatment or cure and is always fatal . |
| 13 | The task of the institutions which prepare young people to become teachers within the schools is equally clear . |
| 14 | The archivists in this collection are predominantly from institutions which hold electronic data , usually created via official social surveys or opinion polls . |
| 15 | One of their tasks will be to prevent anyone entering the magnetic scanner room carrying any metal objects and to watch for objects which store electronic data . |
| 16 | They will ask Western governments for £150 million to help improve anti-XXXX poaching activities , protect national parks , and promote development projects which allow local people to benefit from conservation . |
| 17 | Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates . |
| 18 | A series of press and cinema advertisements highlighting the annual hunt will target high street supermarket chains which use Faroese fish in their products . |
| 19 | The effect would be worst on their small projects … the kind which help poor people the most . |
| 20 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 21 | For obvious reasons , financial security at a level which permits old people to join in the activities which are part of everyday society is a foundation on which much else rests . |
| 22 | This will require an attack on pension inequalities and social policies which stigmatise older people . |
| 23 | compiling exhibition and performance programmes which represent Disabled people 's perspectives and priorities |
| 24 | ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case . |
| 25 | In most cases , they have produced social class scales which put professional people at the top , then other non-manual workers , then various grades of manual worker . |
| 26 | On July 6 Danielle Mitterrand , wife of the French President François Mitterrand , escaped with minor injuries during a car-bomb attack near Sulaimaniya which killed four people . |
| 27 | Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards . |
| 28 | It is condoning promotion of a drug which kills 110,000 people a year … it is , quite simply , unethical . ’ |
| 29 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 30 | These will include a visit to the famous open air museum which documents traditional folk life in the Carpathian part of Moravia and Silesia . |