Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Animals which hibernate include hedgehogs , ground squirrels , dormice , bats , hamsters and one bird . |
| 2 | Animals which need to judge distance accurately have eyes at the front of their heads — like us . |
| 3 | We have n't set the world alight , but we have seen a selection of the many kinds of birds and animals which choose to make Shetland their home . |
| 4 | I shall deal with this last question first , since I think that approaching the subject of content analysis from a cultural and qualitative perspective can be more informative than using quantitative methods which involve counting column inches and sitting with radio and stopwatch . |
| 5 | The whole apparatus is part of the inner ear , and the total system works in the same fluid which also surrounds the cochlear ( that is the part of the inner ear with 20,000–25,000 minute hairs which respond to sound waves ) . |
| 6 | The most recent events may be impacts which have yielded craters with bright rays ( section 6.3.5 ) which may be no more than a few tens of Ma old . |
| 7 | The Americans do not seem to have had problems in setting up units which seek to provide permanence by offering specialist and intensive social work services both to natural families and to children joining substitute new families . |
| 8 | The state field will be optional and if not specified , all DCs which have changed state since the specified date will be provided . |
| 9 | The state field is optional and if not specified , all DCs which have changed state since the specified date will be listed . |
| 10 | Henceforth , parties which fail to get 5% of the vote will not be represented in parliament . |
| 11 | Normally the natural challenge of adult cattle , yearlings or calves which have acquired immunity to D. viviparus , whether by natural exposure or by vaccination , is not associated with clinical signs . |
| 12 | Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks . |
| 13 | To enable pupils to identify with situations , beliefs and experiences of people in the past and to increase their awareness of the influences which have shaped attitudes in the past . |
| 14 | It is these images which have gained Rothenberg renewed critical interest . |
| 15 | Alan Bleakley tells of some very fruitful rituals including working with archetypal images which have taken place at various stone circles in Cornwall where individuals were considerably helped by being able to tune in to the spirit of the place . |
| 16 | Both involve the identification of a previously existing , now largely defunct , set of moral imperatives which have given way to a new order in which control , particularly of sexual conduct , has diminished . |
| 17 | This secrecy extends from the processes of Cabinet Government to schools which refuse to release exam results . |
| 18 | In those schools which have delegated budgets control of expenditure rests with the governing body . |
| 19 | Local Management of Schools transfers powers over personnel and staffing matters from LEAs to the governing bodies of schools which have delegated budgets . |
| 20 | Important changes are afoot within the network of personal relationships which have cemented state and church power in Italy since the war . |
| 21 | Not every noun has a plural form , but , because such words behave in other ways like words which do form plurals , they are admitted into the noun class , eg advice — it is impossible to say *advices , but it is accepted into the noun class . |
| 22 | Elegiac recollections are buttressed by the Roberts lithographs , pictures which have become part of a deep and dreamlike sleep through which the Palestinians have passed since 1948 . |
| 23 | TROOPS held Zairean legislators prisoner for the second day yesterday , demanding they approve use of controversial banknotes which have caused riots and crippled trade . |
| 24 | Lord , your will is for peace — we pray for peoples and nations which try to use force ; we pray for the Gulf , for Liberia , for South Africa , for Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Lord , your will is for peace — we pray for peoples and nations which try to use force ; we pray for Yugoslavia , for South Africa , for Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Hens which have to lay eggs on a wire floor become extremely agitated before they lay , and show stereotyped pacing behaviour indicative of severe frustration . |
| 27 | To do so it is necessary to examine the origins of our literary expectations which so frequently assume that the best literary experience deals with individuals capable of making moral distinctions and to question the pejorative critical formulations which tend to accompany assessments of characters as vehicles for ideas : caricature , static , incompletely realised , and so on . |
| 28 | Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance . |
| 29 | Government 's most cherished social policies may be enforced against local opposition , whether through the courts , dismissal of authorities which fail to set budgets , or through the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ over a recalcitrant agency . |
| 30 | It is important to note that most of the authorities which have experienced the more punitive forms of grant limitation and all but one of the authorities which have experienced rate capping have been Labour controlled . |