Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future . |
| 2 | I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment . |
| 3 | ( a ) An equilibrium of right and protection must be established between the individual to be judged and the society which judges in order to escape the exaggerations … introduced by the classical school , which failed to distinguish between dangerous and not dangerous , atavistic and evolutive delinquents . |
| 4 | That is , the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the range of contextual assumptions which distinguish sprinting from ordinary running . |
| 5 | " Survival of the strongest " , for instance , and its tooth-and-claw ethic which became associated with Social Darwinism , is not at all what Wallace had meant by " survival of the fittest " , where fitness was defined by him as a far subtler and more complex weave of forces than mere pugnacious self-interest . |
| 6 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 7 | His work with children was an adaptation of Laban 's principles of movement which became known in this country during the war . |
| 8 | For the present , it must suffice simply to note the importance which Anselm attached to local rights . |
| 9 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 10 | Then you have the problem of reconciling that with other duties , such as your legal duties which tend to lag behind best practice . |
| 11 | The system begins with its protozoa jiggling about at random , but after a few generations , they evolve into a race of protozoa which tend to move in straight lines . |
| 12 | These configurations were found to have implications both for flows of mutual aid , which tend to occur between those of similar employment status and notably between the unemployed , and for access to employment . |
| 13 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 14 | Legislation was passed in 1891 which sought to differentiate between first-time and repeating offenders . |
| 15 | Added to all this are features which make working with long , complex documents much simpler . |
| 16 | The Activity Books include a range of drawing , writing and matching activities , which develop left to right orientation , letter recognition , and later basic reading . |
| 17 | By contrast , a sperm is a single cell , a gamete , which needs to fuse with another gamete of opposite sex before the development of the embryo can be initiated . |
| 18 | This is only the latest in a series of issues which have emerged as computer technology has developed and linked up with telecommunications , and which appear to bear upon fundamental questions of individual freedom . |
| 19 | Renner ( 1949 ) argued with some plausible empirical evidence that legal norms which appear to persist for lengthy historical periods , spanning different modes of production , in fact change their substantive functions in response to developments in economic structures . |
| 20 | In each of the three ballets discussed movements are not merely coloured by natural emotional expression but often by conventional and occupational gesture , which appear to spring from each dancer 's physical and mental reactions to each situation as it arises . |
| 21 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 22 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 23 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 24 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 25 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
| 26 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 27 | So the world is one nation which has branched into lesser nations . |
| 28 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |
| 29 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’ |