Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In some cases , the returning officer is such ex officio , as being , e.g. , the sheriff of a county compromising a single constituency , or the mayor of a London borough which comprises a single constituency .
2 There arises the problem of reconciling a religion which has a unique Christ ( who in his human nature is male ) with feminism .
3 This is a sickness akin to radiation poisoning which causes a high rate of ‘ chemical mutation ’ and makes the colourless an unreliable source of labour .
4 This is a dramatic disorder of the small intestine which produces a massive outflow of water electrolytes that can be fatal within a matter of hours after the onset of disease !
5 In conclusion , always treat any horse which develops a sudden temperature rise and respiratory signs as potentially infectious and always isolate any cases .
6 THE high flying Canaries were knocked off their perch by an in-form Wimbledon side which produced a classy display .
7 In the third place , even in its own terms , the concept of history as a continuous development , a progressive totalization of totalizations , is dependent on a notion of chronology which assumes a synchronic homogeneous notion of time .
8 Glasgow are hoping for 2,000 visitors a day and are charging a comparatively modest £3.50 full entry tariff which includes a high-tech Walkman-type audio tour .
9 In essence the two approaches diverge around theories of the person , with Reform Islam stressing the autonomy of the individual and his direct access to God , as against popular Islam and South Asian Sufism which tolerate a wide range of ritual customs , accommodate to wordly hierarchies of ranking and power , and are based on notions of mediation with God by Saints possessing divine secret knowledge and intercessionary powers .
10 Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency .
11 Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority .
12 It is a five-year investment which pays a gross rate of 110% of the percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 .
13 This culminated , in 1954 , with the episode which sent a delicious frisson around the English art Establishment and made Rothenstein 's popular reputation : going around the Diaghilev exhibition , he ran into Cooper , who started insulting him and then punched him .
14 A command which loads a new program from a file and CLEARs the variables of the old program .
15 The award recognises the innovative use of technology in the programme and also marks the success of the programme which offers a genuine educational qualification recognised by the building industry .
16 Kicking off in tandem with the start of the summer series on Saturday , April 4th is the club 's Royal Yachting Association based training programme which offers a wide and comprehensive selection of courses up until the end of October .
17 The 1950s machine translation programme which turned a visiting general 's test sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back into ‘ The steak is wonderful but the whisky is lousy ’ is probably apocryphal , but nevertheless all too plausible .
18 Self-consciously drawing on the experience of Fuji-Xerox , RX accelerated a pervasive change process through the LTQ programme which propagated a common analytical language to maximize employee commitment to the process .
19 This is the major challenge for the training programme which has a vital part to play in shaping the success of the new arrangements .
20 It stressed its social programme which included a minimum wage , minimum unemployment benefits and a basic 40-hour week .
21 The problems of financing and supplying expeditions to the continent provoked political opposition which had a wide popular basis and in which some of the nobility allied themselves with the commons in seeking redress for the grievances of the community .
22 The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen .
23 These conditions also entail an independent judiciary which performs a particular type of deliberative role which Oakeshott calls ‘ an exercise in retrospective casuistry ’ .
24 Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally .
25 In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two .
26 About half the rear of the guitar is covered by shielded black plastic ; this includes the battery compartment which houses a single PP3 battery , wrapped in foam to stop it rattling around .
27 One of the few certainties in the European debate is physical geography which decrees a peripheral position for Scotland in the new Europe .
28 And then Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Sodapop in The Outsiders , the movie which launched a whole schoolroom of teenagers into proper stardom — Tom Cruise , Emilio Estevez , Matt Dillon and Lowe among them .
29 It entails extending credit to the exporter which involves a financial cost through the loss of deposit interest or incurring bank loan charges .
30 One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis .
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