Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter . |
| 2 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 3 | However the tests applied are sufficiently broad to catch material which encourages the use of dangerous drugs or which advocates criminal violence . |
| 4 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 5 | More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ . |
| 6 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 7 | There is close co-operation with other departments in the Faculty , so that research which involves international or European law , or other branches of law , or which has theoretical dimensions , may also be pursued . |
| 8 | Thorndyke inserted another statement further on in the passage which was either neutral with respect to possible inferences or which supported particular inferences . |
| 9 | Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable . |
| 10 | VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied . |
| 11 | Just imagine what a seven foot gauge ‘ King ’ or ‘ Castle ’ , built out to the full loading gauge , could have achieved or what speeds modern diesel and electric seven foot trains might attain ! |
| 12 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |
| 13 | For instance , there is no exploration of whether gender identity can be constructed in this way or what told these people that they were not the ’ right ’ sex . |
| 14 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 15 | For what he means by Religion , as he points out , is that which underlies all religions . |
| 16 | But those who offer to define ‘ good ’ in this way do think it important to insist that what promotes this survival is good . |
| 17 | The benefits in terms of reliability and speed are dramatic enough — reckons that what took 20 minutes to send down a line can now take a tenth of the time . |
| 18 | It is from the dominant ideology that standards of acceptable , normal behaviour are defined ; and it is from this ideology that what constitutes social problems and criminal actions are also defined . |
| 19 | For in common with all extensional definitions , it provides no criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of further phenomena that may come to our attention ; at best one can say that what warrants pragmatic treatment for some new topic is simply linguists ' consensus based on intuitive " family resemblance " to more familiar pragmatic topics . |
| 20 | The present study was conceived of in the context of a theory that what licenses plural reference is the possibility of mapping atomic individuals into a common role-slot in some interpretative structure ( work in progress ) . |
| 21 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 22 | But it 's not only Trodd and other producers who believe that what makes good work in a collaborative art is the challenge of having to justify decisions to your colleagues , and having colleagues who are not afraid to make those challenges . |
| 23 | We shall join them in trying to root out open and covert subsidies on the Continent which work against the principle of the single market and which put British firms at a disadvantage . ’ |
| 24 | This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’ |
| 25 | Health authorities are encouraged to arrange for the services which ethnic minority communities need and which reflect cultural differences . |
| 26 | The 1950s resembled the 1920s experience with a roughly equal balance of public and private construction , almost all of which was suburbanization by addition and which produced 3732 dwellings . |
| 27 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 28 | The final selection was slanted towards books with a strong social content and which explored political issues . |
| 29 | Some experts argue that the solution lies in exploiting the country 's aquifers , which they claim are as yet largely untapped , and which contain sufficient water to supply the major cities . |
| 30 | One of the most popular programmes on 1OAB was The Fort San Programme which I presented each Sunday at 12.30 noon and which featured 90 minutes of records requested for patients in the tuberculosis sanatorium at Fort Qu'Appelle . |