Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Property dualism holds that the perception and the neural events which are its physical basis are simply different aspects , properties or attributes of the same ( physical ) events : what the physiologist observes on examining the brain and what the owner of the examined brain feels are two aspects of the same event . |
| 2 | In this account the world is seen as one where individual countries are completely subordinate to the general world system , in contrast to an international economy being created by the interplay of different countries which are themselves prime actors . |
| 3 | These showed that the crystalline rocks comprise an allochthonous sheet generally 6–15 km thick , pushed at least 260 km west over Palaeozoic sediments which are themselves 1–5 km thick . |
| 4 | So which are they easy ones ? |
| 5 | They are not so much status-based as functional , but they have an all-pervasive influence on the individual 's life far beyond the narrow functions which are their specific object . |
| 6 | With its aim of achieving ‘ a greater unity between its Members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress ’ , the new body became Western Europe 's first postwar political organisation , one which immediately and daringly claimed that it would work for ‘ an economic and political union ’ . |
| 7 | The composer and the writer of the text ( where one is used ) mediate and transcribe the words and music which are their particular inspiration from God . |
| 8 | The first is that the stockmarket does not collapse again , causing banks ' equity capital and their unrealised share gains ( which are their main cushion against bad loans ) to dwindle . |
| 9 | She is the daughter of an English mother and a Pakistani father , who says that it is her Asian looks which are her greatest asset . |
| 10 | Certainly in the work that the Greater York er authorities did in preparing their proposals over the past er four or five years , er we have worked fairly closely with what was then the Yorkshire Water Authority and National Rivers Authorities on the questions of drainage erm and so forth which are our major problems around York . |
| 11 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 12 | You see I am very careful in settling the Chronology of his Poems ; such a Genius is a Curiosity ; and one wou 'd willingly know which are his first Productions . |
| 13 | There , in the course of less than eight months , he wrote the three papers which are his main claim to fame . |
| 14 | The laibon 's face is always troubled , as though the thoughts which are his special preserve are weighing on him heavily . |
| 15 | A Commission under Governor Kerner of Illinois placed the blame squarely on white racism and on the social and economic inequalities which were its direct results . |
| 16 | Although Anne had always read voraciously it had been novels and poetry , or volumes of letters and diaries which were her particular favourites . |
| 17 | Anyone with any memories or information about Walker Brothers , the Pagefield Ironworks and in particular the railcars which were their post-war bread and butter , should contact him on |
| 18 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 19 | We walked through the gloomy , echoing streets to the pub , past turdy parks , past the Victorian school with outside toilets , past the numerous bomb-sites which were our true playgrounds and sexual schools , and past the neat gardens and scores of front rooms containing familiar strangers and televisions shining like dying lights . |
| 20 | Which were my best subjects at school ? |
| 21 | The organisms which were his special interest , the actinomycetes or ray fungi , were particularly vigorous in producing substances which inhibit the growth of other microbes . |
| 22 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
| 23 | But they must find Shetland pretty inhospitable , with no trees to support the grubs which is their normal diet . |
| 24 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 25 | The Belfast date is part of a tour to promote their current chart-topping album ‘ Promises And Lies ’ , which is their first album of original material for some time . |
| 26 | Remember that we , we sent er ten pounds to the area committee , which they 've said , thank you very much indeed , erm for , and , and there 's a meeting erm next in June , which is their next meeting . |
| 27 | But many of his backbenchers are getting over-excited ( which is their constitutional function ) . |
| 28 | Walks extend for miles over the hill-tops ; the great beauty of which is their wild simplicity : they are perfectly smooth , without rocks . |
| 29 | The infection happens when the body 's primary defence , which is its unbroken skin , fails . |
| 30 | The Park might then have a chance to return to the ‘ wild character ’ which is its chief delight . |