Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is the responses they provide which constitute the data recorded and analysed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I want to know what caused the amnesia . ’ |
| 14 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 15 | Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We just do n't know what caused the fire and our scenes of crime officers are still investigating . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | It is still land which confers the privilege of citizenship . |
| 24 | The term ‘ visually handicapped ’ is used to refer to those pupils who have difficulties in seeing which necessitate the use of special educational methods or adaptations to materials and who need to use special aids and equipment for learning . |
| 25 | Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns . |
| 26 | It is the system of requiring leave to appeal which rations the case load of the House of Lords and filters out cases for attention which involve issues of supervision . |
| 27 | a method of binding which allows the insertion and removal of pages for continuous updating . |
| 28 | That 's not a criticism of the project as such , it 's just that the sort of service that was intended which included the conversion of a building , did not check out that a building was available — there was no building . |
| 29 | He is a prominent member of the Christadelphians sect which mounted the exhibition and takes it from town to town , week by week , year by year . |
| 30 | While some capitalist societies may practise an extreme individualism , it is surely only a Romantic tendency to dichotomize which denies the possibility of this characteristic to all other societies . |