Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Can my hon. Friend confirm that when he announces new proposals for deregulation he will ensure that he and his officials have consulted the Minister for small businesses to see that every effort is made to take into account the needs of small businesses and that deregulation , wherever possible , is increased , so that small businesses can get special exemptions where possible from what can be very complicated regulations and procedures that the Government introduce ?
2 Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table .
3 Mr Trimble added : ‘ It might be best to proceed , not in an adversarial courtroom manner , but in an inquisitorial procedure with the outcome being a report , part or all of which would be published . ’
4 These plants , part or all of which may cause ill effects , can all be found in this country .
5 Graded assessment , referred to as " Graduated tests " in the Cockcroft Report , has a number of features associated with it , some or all of which may be found in existing schemes .
6 The elements which bring language to life in a classroom are gestures , handling and touching things , incidents , pictures , some or all of which may be part of a game or a contest .
7 The set contains two short videos , one audio cassette , five manuals , several leaflets and posters , some or all of which can be used according to the needs of different groups .
8 Three quite separate elements may be involved , all or any of which may be present at any one time .
9 This means that the practitioner recognizes that the patient is not just a physical entity but also has emotional , mental and spiritual aspects — all or any of which may need treatment .
10 The ‘ service ’ departments are a mixed bag , one or two of which may claim ‘ functional ’ status .
11 Part of the PhotoFinish 2.0 package is a photo-library amounting to some 200 or so colour images , one or two of which may be familiar .
12 Flexibility of working due to variety of equipment available , all or most of which can be operated by existing staff
13 But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " .
14 We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations .
15 Mental events are contained in rather than identical with what can be called personal epistemic facts .
16 What we choose to call this event depends upon factors such as its magnitude : we speak for instance of accidents , emergencies , disasters and catastrophes , each of which carries connotations concerning the scale of the event and each of which will have a set of human and/or environmental consequences .
17 Each is a Ring of Protection , and each of which will only function as a magical ring if it can be separated from the others .
18 The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not .
19 Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn .
20 Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ .
21 This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions .
22 Almost every scanner you can buy comes with its own software , some of which is passable , and some of which can be downright dire .
23 The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections .
24 They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company .
25 Such processed foods therefore have added to them artificial colours , flavours , flavour enhancers ( usually monosodium glutamate , MSG ) , texturizers , emulsifiers and preservatives — most of which are chemicals of no particular use to the body and many of which may actually be harmful .
26 They are , first , the reforms of industrial relations which have created harmonious working practices , all of which were opposed and many of which would be reversed by a Labour Government .
27 The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman !
28 cuts in defence expenditure , both of which are irresponsible and both of which would have a devastating effect on our capacity to defend ourselves .
29 First signs of the thaw date from 1850 , but the process accelerated during the 1920s , 1960s and 1980s in what could be another manifestation of the greenhouse effect .
30 Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples .
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