Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insecticides used for control are designed to have a residual action which goes on killing cockroaches several months after the initial application . |
| 2 | The breadth of this review , which goes on to discuss Sir Thomas Elyot 's The Governour and to conclude by looking at immediate reforms applicable in a modern world of ‘ industrial exploitation … ’ where ‘ local community does not exist ’ relates clearly to ‘ East Coker ’ . |
| 3 | Britain had its own discussions , spurred on by the Wootton Report on Drug Dependency , published in July 1969 , which recommended substantially reduced penalties for pot-smoking . |
| 4 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 5 | Those few councils which sought substantially to exceed government guidelines were brought sharply into line . |
| 6 | There are aspects of the scheme which appear either to distort information or to offer less sophisticated information than is required , and which would cause library authorities to examine its cost-effectiveness very closely before theory could be put into practice . |
| 7 | A closest match algorithm would be of use here , or some combination of the highest rated character candidates which contains frequently occurring sequences . |
| 8 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 9 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 10 | Demands for national self-determination , from Scotland to Catalonia , have been stimulated by the development of the European Community , which has both exacerbated perceptions of distance from the decision-making process and provided a familiar and supportive framework within which the newly independent states could operate . |
| 11 | This is based in part on the growth of effective party organisation , which has steadily weakened parliament 's original critical role , and in part on the emergence of a complex civil service structure with access to information and technical expertise that are denied to ordinary Members of Parliament ( Poggi , 1978 ; Crossman , 1963 and 1975–7 ) . |
| 12 | It is an astonishing development in a saga which has repeatedly stunned football . |
| 13 | The similarly large increase in recorded crime in many countries in the second half of the twentieth century has also been cited as support for this theory , which has strongly influenced interpretations of crime in the contemporary Third World . |
| 14 | Indeed one firm — which has since gone bust — offered £1.5 million more , while other better offers would have entailed loss of control and loss of identity . |
| 15 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
| 16 | Hopefully this will allow the ethnography to extend on the interpretive analysis which Kuper ( 1973 ) termed ‘ neostructural ’ and which has since combined aspects of a feminist , semantic , and symbolic framework to generate what may well be a short-lived disciplinary ‘ ism ’ of ‘ post-modern ’ anthropology ( Young 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Merseyside Opera , a company which has even attracted words of praise from Rita Hunter , is about to stage Carmen at the Neptune . |
| 18 | An issue which has also caused controversy involves the release of results of individual schools . |
| 19 | Andre Fabre 's Oaks winning fillies Intrepidity and Wemyss Bight head the entries for the Prix Vermeille , which has also drawn Paul Cole 's Bright Generation and Richard Hannon 's Dana Springs . |
| 20 | But not Pachysandra , a fleshy-leafed evergreen , which has nice variegated varieties . |
| 21 | The Chateau de Sceaux , which has just undergone restoration lasting one year , and whence in 1700 the duc d'Anjou , Louis XIV 's grandson , set off for Spain as Philip V , re-opens on 2 April with an exhibition devoted , appropriately , to the court of the Spanish Bourbons . |
| 22 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sunconnect division is to roll-out the latest version of SunNet Manager , its network manager software , in an attempt to catch up with Hewlett-Packard Co which has just released OpenView 3.0 . |
| 23 | A and erm and I think it is being conducted by the government which has just left China |
| 24 | Of course , all I do is ring Verso , which has just published Class War 's book ( Class War . |
| 25 | This is the authority which has not increased school meal prices for 11 years , since 1981 ; it has been expelled from the Museums Association for selling pictures and using the money for non-museum purposes — and so on , and so on , and so on . |
| 26 | This is the new generation of the wilderness , the generation which has not known slavery , and which will show no servility . |
| 27 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 28 | But the city council has said Expo can have all the water it needs , even if this means cutting off supplies to the city itself , a decision which has not thrilled Sevillanos , already resentful of the ephemeral extravaganza planted on their doorsteps . |
| 29 | By contrast , the Uniform Law for International Sales , the forlorn predecessor of the Vienna Sales Convention , is an indifferent product which has not attracted support . |
| 30 | Increased integration of the patient and carers is encouraged , combatting the isolation which has frequently preceded referral . |