Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Miller 's play ‘ A View From the Bridge ’ , many moral and social issues are addressed which affect the lives of all of us .
2 We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them .
3 Improved knowledge of the basic mechanisms of gastric secretion led to the development of synthetic drugs such as cimetidine and ranitidine which block the action of histamine , by occupying the histamine receptors in the parietal cell ( H2receptors ) .
4 Thus , although the income statement and balance sheet will be addressed to shareholders primarily , an employee report might be included which amplifies the accounts as they affect employees .
5 It is not the number of ewes that a particular unit has which causes the problem ; it is the increase in the production of ewes generally .
6 What is unusual about this resource is that at each point in the dialogue it is known what idea the speaker is trying to express , and what information the hearer has which provides the context for its understanding .
7 In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics .
8 An experiment is reported which investigates the impact of two variables on the likelihood of obtaining plural pronoun anaphors in a continuation task .
9 Jenkins intends to survey all health authorities and SSDs to discover which has a policy on elder abuse and which actually has a nominated person to deal with complaints .
10 What do the various international agreements on the laws of war say which has a bearing on the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ?
11 If fusion occurs inside the cathode , at F , a neutron may be emitted which enters the water bath , slows and is captured at γ , emitting a gamma ray of energy 2.2 MeV .
12 Bill Clinton came last in the four-way race in the New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch which has a population of 37 .
13 The purchaser will normally require the vendor to warrant that the report is accurate in all material respects and that there are no facts omitted which make the report misleading .
14 It is the responses they provide which constitute the data recorded and analysed .
15 A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling .
16 I want to know what caused the amnesia . ’
17 Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue .
18 Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash .
19 Experts are still attempting to establish what caused the filly to test positive to a banned substance after her 40-length defeat by Indian Quest at Kempton last month , for which she started 6-4 favourite .
20 Investigators are still attempting to establish what caused the Martin Pipe-trained hurdler Her Honour to fail a dope test after her flop at Kempton last month .
21 Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year .
22 It studied a big selection of firms from a single industry — machine-tool making in western Germany — in an attempt to discover what makes the sheep sheep , and goats goats .
23 ‘ We just do n't know what caused the fire and our scenes of crime officers are still investigating . ’
24 This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat .
25 While we do not yet know what cues the animals might use , we can exploit the likelihood that , when other qualities such as physical well-being are equal , an optimal choice of mate is likely to be one that minimizes the costs of both inbreeding and outbreeding ( Bateson , 1980 , 1983 ) .
26 THE OBSESSION with winning and the determination to find what makes a man tick come under the spotlight , as Paul Newman 's boozy pool-shark Eddie Felson sets his sights on Jackie Gleason 's Minnesota Fat 's crown .
27 It may be grooming which triggers an outburst of this type .
28 , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal .
29 It is still land which confers the privilege of citizenship .
30 After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast .
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