Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the forced conversions of Christian boys through the devşirme system , there were also voluntary conversions which took place gradually between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and which help to explain the presence in modern Bosnia of a large Slav-speaking Muslim community . |
| 2 | The scent of wood smoke or burning peat , the smells of home baking , the sight of a lighted candle , are all things which make a sharp contrast with life in the present day , and which help to bring the historic building to life . |
| 3 | a rejection of all foreign models of development which tend to be materialistic , dehumanising and which fail to recognise the creative developmental efforts of our own people as the requisite basis for a sustainable developmental process ; |
| 4 | An example of one category of UFO , which some researchers have pinpointed , is of objects with an ovoid shape from 1 to 3 metres in diameter , which rotate on a vertical axis , close to the ground , and which appear to emit a wide range of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 5 | It avoids the pitfalls of other so-called green guides which might tell you which lead-free BMW to buy but which neglect to deliver the most essential message of all about consuming less . |