Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system of transitional payments is in operation , which slows down the effects of these changes on current claimants . |
| 2 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |
| 3 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 4 | What with the addition of new capabilities to spreadsheets , and the advent of products which push back the frontiers of the electronic spreadsheet concept , it 's becoming a little difficult to draw a line between spreadsheet products and more elaborate financial modelling environments . |
| 5 | The SLORC issued a statement on July 27 which laid down the powers and responsibilities of the newly elected People 's Assembly , but gave no indication as to when it would be allowed to convene . |
| 6 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 7 | The Labour Party had Ramsay MacDonald 's voice and presence , the loyalty of much of the bunkered working class , and a manifesto which avoided both the advantages and disadvantages of precision . |
| 8 | A direct system has only one water circuit which supplies both the taps and the radiators . |
| 9 | Even the two towers , which peer over the roofs that block their view , are camouflaged by scaffolding . |
| 10 | At the same time , a third tier has been added to the R&T structure through the concept of skill centres which bring together the interests of more than one primary group working in the same field — that at Runcorn serving the acrylics and resins businesses is an example . |
| 11 | At intervals along these are found acupuncture points which are stimulated by the insertion of needles , massage or warming with incense so as to balance the elements of yin and yang which make up the ch'i , an imbalance of which is thought to cause disharmony and disease . |
| 12 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 13 | The sugars formed by combining the hydrogen with the carbon dioxide are then converted into substances called starches ( the main components of flour and potatoes ) which can be elaborated further into the many complex materials which make up the bodies of living things . |
| 14 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 15 | Electrical forces are basic to the system , being attributes of the sub-atomic particles , and it is electrical attraction which holds together the atoms and molecules . |
| 16 | A special working party , which drew up the proposals , wrote to Housing Minister Sir George Young : ‘ Around us , Wirral is being improved dramatically under the City Challenge and Merseyside Development Corporation 's programmes but we are the forgotten people . ’ |
| 17 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 18 | However , in the more elaborate and sophisticated paintings of the series , the influence of Cézanne can be sensed in the general construction , in the technique of small , flat , rhythmically applied brush-strokes which build up the forms , and in the devices which Picasso has used to retain the picture plane . |
| 19 | The ability to diagnose the disease takes scientists one step closer to controlling , preventing or even curing the condition which steals away the memories of a lifetime . |
| 20 | The third set of presentation materials could be examples of your own pupils ' work which show how the aims and objectives of history teaching have changed considerably since the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 21 | Developed by the DMT Institute for Heat and Power Generation in Essen , the process involves passing the pre-cooled flue gases through " active " coke pellets , filled with tiny pores containing catalysts which filter out the pollutants . |
| 22 | The Church took the lead in rallying the forces which drove out the poles and established the Romanovs on the throne . |
| 23 | Ruth stood before the screened fireplace in her duchess gown , drinking her tea , the focus for all the eyes which constantly rose and came to her , and the old smiles which lifted up the lips over the discoloured , sharp old teeth . |
| 24 | So-called ‘ regenerated celluloses ’ , such as Cellophane , are made by dissolving natural cellulose by chemical methods which break up the crystals . |
| 25 | But it was an American company , United Artists , which put together the talents of Richard Lester , a London-based American who had acquired fast-cutting wizardry on live TV shows , and a phenomenon far bigger than Cliff , the Beatles , for A Hard Day 's Night ( 1964 ) . |
| 26 | Chancellor Franz Vranitzky in late March carried out a minor Cabinet reshuffle which affected only the posts held by his own Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ) . |
| 27 | The US is worried about the costs of running its five weather satellites , two of which travel over the poles . |
| 28 | The world relies for much of its weather data on a network of satellites , which are either stationed in a fixed position above the equator or which travel over the poles to scan the globe . |
| 29 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 30 | Another vital component are macrophages , cells which attack bacteria , and other substances which fend off the bugs responsible for many stomach upsets , so babies have far greater protection against diarrhoea . |