Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 2 | The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors . |
| 3 | Partnership in Learning : The Teacher Placement Service and the National Curriculum , sponsored by Lloyds Bank , comprising guidelines which recognise the four key stages of the National Curriculum and address the core , foundation and cross-curricular themes . |
| 4 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 5 | Choose the songs which show the widest range of your abilities , and put the best one first . |
| 6 | All mammals have ears which follow the same basic plan as ours . |
| 7 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 8 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 9 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 10 | For example , Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow . |
| 11 | A coach will then help each student select those methods which match the dynamic performance of the kayak in use and which are most appropriate to the personal aims and values of the trainee . |
| 12 | When this is the case methods which give the entire distribution rather than some of the averages referred to above must be used . |
| 13 | He has himself , let us say , spent a couple of disillusioning years in Bali , so that he fully understands the considerations which tempt the young man , but has the advantage of fuller information . |
| 14 | As with so many of the apparently unreal differences on the Left it was organizational rather than principled considerations which divided the Communist and non-Communist advocates of Unity . |
| 15 | Is this asymmetric behaviour an intrinsic property of the stem cell , or are there environmental signals which control the different pathways of the daughter cells ? |
| 16 | Cancer cells become tumorigenic as a result of multiple independent steps which subvert the normal growth control mechanisms described earlier . |
| 17 | In general the law changes look like long overdue positive steps which strike the delicate balance of encouraging attacking enterprise while also punishing sides intent on killing the ball in defence . |
| 18 | This is only one of several tactics which has the incidental effect of squeezing the ‘ Mum and Dad ’ agencies . |
| 19 | The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide . |
| 20 | These are the groups and organizations which express the vast diversity of interests within society . |
| 21 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 22 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 23 | These are the coarse outer hairs which overlie the thick insulating underfur . |
| 24 | In addition , Ferrari has also shown that the shock waves which accompany the impulsive waves only affect the rate at which the Weyl scalars diverge on the singularity . |
| 25 | At Gwynedd Education Committee , Coun Jill Knight called for funding for the units which serve the special needs of young children , leading to their integration into mainstream schooling . |
| 26 | It may be that we need to experiment with permanence units , some of which will specialise in achieving permanence through the return to natural families , and others in achieving permanence by placement with new families , and also having units which combine the two functions . |
| 27 | In the second year , students take a range of units which provide the necessary framework for philosophical activity — in the epistemological and metaphysical considerations of the rationalist and empiricist traditions , in logic and in traditions of ethical thought . |
| 28 | In the second year , students choose from a range of units which provide the necessary framework for philosophical activity — in the epistemological and metaphysical considerations of the rationalist and empiricist traditions , in logic and in traditions of ethical thought . |
| 29 | Some success is now claimed for the ‘ magnetic ’ water treatment units which have the same effect on suspended matter . |
| 30 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |