Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a powerful explanation because it succeeds in linking the fact of there being a restriction on sexuality in religions which preach brotherly love to all mankind , especially Christianity , Islam and Buddhism . |
| 2 | They lived in 264 houses which averages 5.36 persons to a household . |
| 3 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 4 | When I was a junior doctor in hospitals in the late 1920s , I had under my care a doctor , then over 60 , who told me that when he was young in London , he knew of a doctor 's plate which conveyed this message to prospective patients : Medicine and advice fourpence , superior ditto sixpence . |
| 5 | It is a humdrum enough explanation which goes some way to explaining why most public appointments are so dull . |
| 6 | The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay 's success , is his superb draughtsmanship . |
| 7 | Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do . |
| 8 | A basic page printer comes with a controller and not a RIP which goes some way to explaining the lack of control that can be achieved with printers like HP 's LaserJet and Ricoh 's 4080 . |
| 9 | Mr Campbell added : ‘ Anything which goes some way to alleviating this problem has to be a good thing . ’ |
| 10 | Top-quality Scotch beef is replacing more expensive German beef in Italy and the price for the best and heaviest home-killed bullocks has been forced up to £1,000 a head — which goes some way to explaining why fresh meat is suddenly so much dearer in shops . |
| 11 | The growing importance of lager , which offers similar advantages to the nationals as bottled beer and keg beers in the past ( i.e. a standardized product offering considerable manufacturing economies of scale and well suited to national advertising and distribution ) . |
| 12 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 13 | The latter Liverpool-based agency , which offers electro-acupuncture treatment to drug-dependent people , opened in December 1985 , and soon began to attract clients from the Wirral area . |
| 14 | In perpetuating a financial structure which offers tremendous advantages to large firms , it is as important to consider the role of the state in maintaining the idiosyncrasies of the financial system as it is to debate the extent of state control over commercial banks . |
| 15 | In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state . |
| 16 | There is another bar with TV lounge indoors and an a la carte restaurant which offers great value to Club guests . |
| 17 | EXCLUSIVE A HUMAN egg donor programme , which offers new hope to hundreds of childless couples , will be provided for the first time by a Merseyside hospital . |
| 18 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 19 | He masked the fear in his eyes with the vacant , subservient glaze which became second nature to military personnel . |
| 20 | An annual further education programme was one of the things which became possible thanks to the availability of full-time professional staff . |
| 21 | Essentially the disputes which led local men to side predominantly with Parliament in the 1640s grew from their ideas of social control . |
| 22 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 23 | Much research which contributes useful information to sociology is carried out by non-sociologists , and perhaps the best example of this is the decennial census of population without which British sociology would be hard pressed for much data about our society . |
| 24 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 25 | Olivetti , which supplies personal computers to DEC , expects Alpha and Intel Corp processors will each account for 35% of its hardware sales from 1995 , computer printers will account for 20% and other products 10% . |
| 26 | So would ICI 's caustic-soda and chlorine business , which supplies raw materials to EVC — a throwback to ICI 's vertically integrated days . |
| 27 | They do not ‘ solve ’ intractable problems , but they make other organizations carry the can for policy failures , a factor which commonly underlies systems which accord wide discretion to local governments . |
| 28 | So there are ways forward in difficult inner-city areas which bring real solutions to the lives of ordinary people , which is what we want to see . |
| 29 | That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power . |
| 30 | But the seams dip steeply in places and there are many faults which bring some workings to an abrupt end . |