Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also outlines the company 's intention to participate in committees which influence legislative developments affecting packaging in the environment . |
| 2 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 3 | He believed that the conflict of interest between capital and labour , which involves one group gaining at the expense of the other , could not be resolved within the framework of a capitalist economy . |
| 4 | The cumbersome and time-consuming method of voting , which involves each MP walking between two tellers and announcing his name , was partly designed to stop members sending their footmen to vote for them . |
| 5 | For example , a mother and infant might establish a simple play routine which involves each partner taking a turn to ‘ blow a raspberry ’ . |
| 6 | Hazards were taken to be simple , which include a single damaging element such as wind , rain , floodwater or earth tremor ; compound , which involves several elements acting together above their respective damage thresholds such as the wind , hail and lightning of a severe storm ; and multiple , when elements of different kinds coincide accidentally or follow one another as a hurricane may be succeeded by landslides and floods . |
| 7 | Pigs , grain , potatoes and some breeding sheep were also sold through the system , which involves potential buyers bidding from computer terminals in their own offices for livestock , grain , etc. which have been described in detail to them . |
| 8 | We share a Peter Pan mentality , a lack of self-discipline and a strong streak of slob — which renders any room inhabited by the two of us into a bomb-site within minutes . |
| 9 | The basic point is that far from media changes giving rise to simple shifts in musical practice , media , content and social relations form a very complex interrelationship which renders any schema based on abstract historical antitheses very questionable . |
| 10 | This is almost an inversion of the procedure examined below in the case of similes which introduce underlexicalised terms used with special meanings in the fiction . |
| 11 | If an ambiguous penal provision should , as a matter of principle , be narrowly construed in the interests of liberty and fairness , a criminal statute which lacked all precision authorising the punishment of whatever conduct officials deemed it expedient to punish — should , on the same principle , be denied any application at all . |
| 12 | So , for women in waged jobs , the reduced time available in which to perform domestic labour acts as a pressure to heighten labour productivity in the home , and contributes to the successful penetration of capitalism into this still privatised sector , by the creation of a market for domestic mechanisation . |
| 13 | The suffering involved which receives most publicity takes place in intensive or factory farms , although it is not confined to them . |
| 14 | Analysis of their expression in pheochromocytoma PC 12 cells which mimicks neuronal development has shown that the NF-L and NF-M genes are at least in part controlled at the level of transcription , whereas the induction of NF-H by nerve growth factor is controlled post-transcriptionally ( 4,5 ) . |
| 15 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 16 | Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment . |
| 17 | Lamberhurst , Kent — one of the vineyards which offers sparkling wine produced by Méthode Champenoise |
| 18 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
| 19 | The Woodworker Fellowship is delighted to offer three sizes — 42″ , 44″ , — 46″ at £16 , £17 , and £18 respectively inclusive of postage and packing which offers several pounds discount on the retail price . |
| 20 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 21 | Is it love which drives one human to reduce another to a state of highly charged expectation and desire when no more can be done , or is it lust ? |
| 22 | Historically , in the West , the idea that there is in human nature some intrinsic element or principle which drives human beings to commit damaging and destructive actions is of considerable antiquity and is deeply embedded in the Judaeo-Christian tradition of innate sinfulness . |
| 23 | The information was then fed into a computer which produced individual body reports together with advice on how to become more fit and healthy . |
| 24 | This comment was made in the context of the dictum of Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton , L.R. 4 H.L. 226 , 249 , which he had previously cited with approval and which presupposed that compulsion had induced the payment . |
| 25 | The pressures which led many noblemen to sell their land were largely beyond the control of the State . |
| 26 | The relative ignorance of judges and barristers about such films led the Criminal Bar Association to testify to Williams in 1978 that the deprave-and-corrupt test had outlived its usefulness , which led that Committee to recommend replacement of the criminal test by a scheme of prohibition based on physical rather than psychological harm to ( 1 ) children involved in child pornography , and ( 2 ) humans or animals involved in so-called ‘ snuff movies ’ . |
| 27 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 28 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 29 | A firm which produces smoked fish has been hit by fire . |
| 30 | Headland believes Multisoft 's experience , especially in open systems — computers of different makes that integrate with each other — can be married with systems developed by Mega , Headland 's own accounting software house which produces larger systems sold directly to clients . |