Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This makes it difficult to place students in ‘ responsible line management roles which make up a valuable part of their training as chartered accountants in business ’ .
2 It can be useful practice to read through the first sentences of paragraphs which make up a published essay , to see how much work — of summary and of signposting — is being done by these " topic sentences " .
3 This is illustrated in the notes which make up a musical tune .
4 It tells the story of the development , testing and eventual use of the atomic bombs which brought about an end to the Second World War .
5 The pixels which make up an image on a digitized computer screen are like building blocks which can be coloured and combined in any way the operator 's computer , competence and ingenuity allow .
6 Queen Margaret , white-faced and with dark-ringed eyes , nodded slightly and Catesby prised loose the lid to reveal white , gauze cloths which gave off a sweet fragrant perfume .
7 The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta .
8 Of the three elements which make up an opera — the music , the words and the drama — the third arises from the first two realised by the performance of the singing actors , with the collaboration of the musicians and within the ambience of the set and the costumes .
9 The primary , but not exclusive , focus is on Scottish IT firms which make up a localised sample that could be comprehensively surveyed .
10 Two of many examples of nomic correlates , although the matter is in several ways complex , are provided by the interdependent variation of the pressure of a gas and its volume and temperature , according to the Boyle-Charles law for ideal gases , and the orbits of the two stars which make up a double star , which are held close together by mutual gravitational attraction .
11 the various formats which make up a style sheet- paragraph settings , margins and columns , page layouts , hyphernation and justification , widow and orphan control and automatic section numbering .
12 He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe .
13 Consequently , the National Certificate Modules which make up a general SVQ may not relate directly to functions performed in employment , although they are relevant to the needs of employment .
14 They stressed London 's constant theme of ever-more open markets which chalked up a success with this week 's unexpected decision to break down restrictions on competition in the European airline industry .
15 Artists had been hired especially to prepare these culinary masterpieces in the lifelike forms of birds , beasts and cattle , jousting courtiers in full armour , soldiers battling with cross-bows , knights dancing with ladies ; all were vividly depicted in the gilded confections which rose over a yard high from the groaning dining tables .
16 The wide scope of these sections which spell out a variety of pedagogical , recreational , preventive , advisory , and supportive social work tasks is indicative of the Act 's intention to reduce stigma , stimulate early intervention and motivate and enhance the capacities of ‘ natural carers ’ .
17 It would be ideal if we could list the factors which make up a good melody .
18 In this way the various inter-relationships between all the many factors which make up an individual 's life can be seen as contributing to that individual 's health , or ill-health .
19 Classes gathered round the pipe stoves which gave out a strong smell of soot .
20 Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence .
21 Reassembling , say , all the designs for all the parts which make up a jet engine can be a time-consuming task on a relational database .
22 Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech .
  Next page