Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He succeeded by dint of the radical policy of booking bands that were vaguely contemporary , at least moderately interesting and which common sense along suggested would pull a respectable crowd . |
| 2 | Another of the experiments demonstrated how important it is , if punishment is to work , for children to understand clearly what they are doing wrong and what alternative actions they can choose . |
| 3 | There was , however , another child , a William Hoby , whose pedigree was a little doubtful and whose very birth would seem to be a little obscure . |
| 4 | There 's an important element in this crisis and , in a sense , the government 's reaction , belated as it is , shows a recognition that the crisis , as it affects gay people , can only be stopped or delayed , deferred or whatever through involvement with the gay community — and that 's an odd recognition in this climate . |
| 5 | Since more than 90% of vaccines produce anti-HBs , routine post-vaccination screening is appropriate only for those few persons in whom suboptimal response is likely and whose medical management or employment duties hinge upon knowledge of their immune status . |
| 6 | They have skills and qualities which make them highly valuable and which most organizations regard as being in short supply . |
| 7 | I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards . |
| 8 | This is what it was all about , to push the Germans back , mile by mile , no matter how long or what dreadful toll it might take , until they were safely confined behind their own boundaries again . |
| 9 | If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good . |
| 10 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 11 | Services to help people live as independently as possible in their own home are a priority — especially for those who live alone and whose physical safety or health may be at risk . |
| 12 | The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre . |
| 13 | AIB is too small an organisation to have room for the pure academic whose theoretical knowledge may be most profound but whose practical knowledge is limited . |
| 14 | While only a few farmers could cope on this scale , there was a growing body of men whose individual holdings might have been small but whose collected wealth in terms of stock was vast , although sadly beyond accurate calculation by later historians . |
| 15 | — What they are — How they work — What viruses are common and what practical steps you can take against them — The law |
| 16 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 17 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 18 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 19 | It is easy to reject someone who is very suitable but whose first appearance is off-putting . |
| 20 | Fribble , whose eyes were bright and whose whole bearing was alert , wanted to know what they had to do . |
| 21 | A delicate building , it is so intricately decorated that it is difficult to tell which parts are original and which later modifications . |
| 22 | Why do so many governments , rich and poor , spend so much money on military equipment and weapons which rapidly become obsolete and which ordinary people throughout the world hope will never be used ? |