Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The socially undesirable characteristics which advocates of this movement felt were inheritable and should be eliminated were , as always , strongly influenced by contemporary social imperatives . |
| 2 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 3 | The initial study of cancer cell behaviour can only be done with a living animal in order to define those ‘ test tube ’ characteristics which correlate with uncontrolled growth and spread of tumour cells within the whole body . |
| 4 | Bears , squirrels and badgers are some of the many animals which overwinter in this way . |
| 5 | Animals which live in open country , such as the African bush , tend to have their fovea elongated into a strip . |
| 6 | One of the problems that can develop through the feeding of wild animals is that of dependency , particularly in the case of those animals which live in urban areas where natural foraging opportunities are few and far between . |
| 7 | Nearby is Sea World , the home of sea lions , killer whales and other marine animals which perform before entranced audiences . |
| 8 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 9 | Comm. ) , ( but ) there is no obvious reason why the same approach should apply to the criminal law , particularly in view of the different policy considerations which apply in civil and criminal law . |
| 10 | Sweelinck set the Geneva tunes in styles which range from those of the motet and madrigal to the onomatopoeic French chanson ; it is indeed strange that he ignored both words and tunes of his native Souterliedekens . |
| 11 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 12 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 13 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 14 | It is known more usually under the name Gill-maggot , because of the length and shape of the female 's egg-sacs which look like miniature white maggots when viewed via the naked eye . |
| 15 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |
| 16 | ‘ Small numbers of units which cut across traditional subject boundaries could be designed — one such unit on transport having already been produced . |
| 17 | In the first two books there are also units which focus on situational English , while in the later parts of the series a functional syllabus is combined with a structural grading . |
| 18 | For example , the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has the ability to produce crystalline spores which act as natural insecticides . |
| 19 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 20 | Using the term ‘ dialectic ’ means that the process of movement which characterizes human history is not a smooth development but a development caused by conflicts and contradictions which lead to temporary resolutions , like two people arguing with each other . |
| 21 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 22 | If the reality is that through the inadequacies of the governance structure and of other pressures for conformity the directors have effectively wrested power to pursue goals which diverge from those preferred by the shareholders , then the necessary legitimating connection with property rights is not made out . |
| 23 | One of a new generation of slow down utilities which caters for high speed 80386 and 80486 computers . |
| 24 | However , the origins of increasing tension between the vicomtes of Béarn and the Plantagenets lie in the consequences of the disputes which developed after 1287 over the succession to Bigorre , Marsan and Béarn . |
| 25 | But public bodies — Government departments , local authorities , and others — are also legal persons and also become involved in disputes which lead to judicial activity . |
| 26 | Black communities around Pietermaritzburg have seen much of the fighting in a brutal turf war between the ANC and Inkatha supporters which flared in 1986 , deeply dividing black communities . |
| 27 | The results show that variations in profit margins were directly related to fluctuations in the level of demand for architectural services between 1971 and 1988 but that the liberalisations which occurred after 1982 have also acted to reduce the size of profit margins . |
| 28 | Thus the lack of balance which strikes anyone looking at a thoroughly drained , treeless landscape is reflected in a lack of honest balancing in the books and ledgers which lie behind that landscape . |
| 29 | The stability of the region led to the creation of schools of artists and craftsmen which spread to other suitable places , southern England and Flanders , for example . |
| 30 | As the social world of children broadens to include school , friends , television and public heroes , so too does the range of influences which bear upon personal blueprints for living . |