Example sentences of "[vb -s] [Wh adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement of " proper " means covers where the accused demands what is his : such would not be robbery but can be blackmail . |
| 2 | What really annoys me is what happens whenever the magic words ‘ million ’ or ‘ billion ’ are uttered . |
| 3 | A series of leaflets is available which describes how the various services which are available can be used . |
| 4 | In his careful assessment of this process , Wood shows how the existing authorities kept up their Pressure for local interests — essentially for as much of the existing structure as they could maintain intact — until the last possible moment for amendments ( Wood 1976:Ch . |
| 5 | Hincmar also shows how the chief officers kept " the confederation of the whole realm glued together with the palace " . |
| 6 | The Viewpoint 93 documentary shows how the Allied powers which liberated Kuwait have been reluctant to help the Shias . |
| 7 | Figure 4.4 shows how the absolute amounts spent on the services covered in this book stagnated in real terms after 1974 . |
| 8 | The factor machine at the side of this page shows how the prime factors of 60 are taken out . |
| 9 | This example shows how the prime factors of 72 are worked out using repeated division . |
| 10 | Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing . |
| 11 | Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen . |
| 12 | Figure 3.3 shows how the volume-temperature plots of a gas all extrapolate back to zero volume at 0 K. |
| 13 | Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech . |
| 14 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 15 | Table 6 shows how the respective times of the farmer , his wife , and family , were divided between on-farm and off-farm occupations . |
| 16 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 17 | This again shows how the metric connections correspond to the inertial accelerations and forces of classical mechanics . |
| 18 | It will now be useful to describe all three using mechanical models since this shows where the bistable fits into a complete picture . |
| 19 | My own work offers a model of language which reveals where the principal difficulties lie . |
| 20 | For example , Whyte in her report on GIST , tells how the visiting speakers were told to ‘ present themselves as ‘ rounded ’ feminine beings , i.e. mention how they combined home and family life with their jobs ' ( 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 21 | Dance rhythm means how the varying lengths of notes are grouped together within a phrase . |
| 22 | Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules . |
| 23 | The report explains how the antioxidant vitamins A , C and E are able to neutralise potentially carcinogenic and atherosclerotic free radicals which are produced naturally in the body , but which need to be effectively ‘ mopped up ’ by antioxidant vitamins . |
| 24 | It explains how the different types are made and what the names mean . |
| 25 | He explains how the mathematical tools of congruence , transformation , invariance and groups are used to define symmetry and to classify its variety . |
| 26 | The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers . |
| 27 | Understanding an individual 's particular viewpoint is therefore vital , and explains why the early stages of counselling are concerned primarily with listening . |
| 28 | Perhaps simple ‘ familiarity ’ of the rules and persons involved might be better in defining the inside , i.e. just feeling ‘ at home ’ with things indicates where the internal boundaries lie . |
| 29 | Intercommodity spreads can be subdivided into : intermarket spreads where the two futures in the spread are traded on different exchanges , for instance LIFFE and the CME ; and spreads consisting of different futures traded on the same exchange , such as the FT-SE 100 index future and the long gilt future , both traded on LIFFE . |
| 30 | Reciprocal altruism evolves where the net benefits received by individuals that show co-operative reciprocity exceeds that of non-altruists . |