Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter .
2 Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering .
3 Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable .
4 VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied .
5 We shall join them in trying to root out open and covert subsidies on the Continent which work against the principle of the single market and which put British firms at a disadvantage . ’
6 This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’
7 Health authorities are encouraged to arrange for the services which ethnic minority communities need and which reflect cultural differences .
8 Some experts argue that the solution lies in exploiting the country 's aquifers , which they claim are as yet largely untapped , and which contain sufficient water to supply the major cities .
9 An individual 's personality is the sum total of those traits which define his or her individuality , and which cause one person to be different from another .
10 Despite archaeological discoveries which are still being made year by year and which throw more light upon the Etruscan civilisation , knowledge of these people , their origins , their way of life is still far from complete .
11 There are a number of processes which reproduce themselves through time and which keep poor farmers in perpetual poverty and force them to use their natural environment in non-sustainable ways .
12 The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation .
13 He argues that the polytechnics have a special task to provide courses which prepare people to deal constructively with problems of change in society and which require direct interaction with the world of practical affairs .
14 She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes .
15 A variety of statistical procedures will be explored , which are appropriate to the analysis of such longitudinal data and which overcome this problem of omitted factors , amongst others .
16 Another function of the Committee is its responsibility for the overall supervision of the so-called " collections " of pools of biotechnology materials , which are held at a number of research stations , and which make genetic material available to research workers in other institutions .
17 This is a much more subtle ( though politically more contentious ) diagnosis that those which rest on notions of teacher burnout or personality deficiency and which individualize professional failure and blame individual teachers for it ( or those who train and employ them ) .
18 of the staff are unqualified , and private sector residential homes , which are run as businesses and which charge local authorities as much as £1,000 a week and the directors of which draw as much as £750,000 per annum ?
19 Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing .
20 Essentially , this debate concerns those projects which are undertaken by other than the trading organizations within the public sector and which involve broader considerations than simply , for example , the replacement of worn out equipment .
21 Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance .
22 Inoculations , crossbreeding of animals and the use of hormones are producing better livestock , which resist diseases , which fatten faster , and which give more milk , wool or eggs .
23 It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum .
24 Most of the research is produced in the major industrialised nations , which have huge university systems , active research laboratories and which spend large amounts on research and development .
25 The following notes , questions and observations on courses which have a programmed development and which include written materials and tapes are just a few which may help one to assess the relative merits of the very many courses that are available to the EFL teacher .
26 This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries .
27 The use of the MLA logo for business purposes is restricted to two categories of membership : companies which have already had locksmiths accepted as corporate members of the MLA ( and which meet additional set criteria ) , and affiliate members .
28 This is reflected in the fairs , festivals and sports events which are held throughout the year and which attract many sightseers .
29 Members of society generally share norms which define acceptable male and female apparel and which specify appropriate dress for different age groups : in British society , a 70-year-old grandmother dressed as a teenager would contravene the norms for her age group .
30 The crystal beads and spheres are probably the only objects made of one material and which have different distributions .
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