Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 2 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 3 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
| 4 | When we plan a language syllabus we can draw on very comprehensive descriptions of the language which provide us with a basis for deciding what should go into the syllabus and in what order . |
| 5 | Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians . |
| 6 | My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage . |
| 7 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 8 | They were also subject to the English Parliament , which put them on a different footing from the King 's Scots or Irish subjects , who had Parliaments of their own that were not subordinate to the Westminster Parliament in the way that the Virginia assembly was . |
| 9 | But the second period began with a bang for the CMS side and a quick treble which put them in a commanding position . |
| 10 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 11 | Thus making time , especially in decision making , is essential if you are to deal adequately with important tasks which face you as a manager . |
| 12 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 13 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 14 | I have yet to see much validation of this support women give each other , especially in working-class communities , which recognise it as a political affiliation , a movement . |
| 15 | The fry of livebearers and the eggs of any fish which happen to spawn are quickly devoured by the other fish — often including the parents , which see them as a meal . |
| 16 | The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny . |
| 17 | This raises another spectre : as palladium is the key , what power brokerage will it give the countries which have it as a natural mineral resource — USSR and South Africa ? |
| 18 | Delaunay , who earlier in the year had held an important exhibition together with Marie Laurencin at the Galerie Barbazanges , did not show at the Section d'Or , and wrote an open letter to Vauxcelles : ‘ I beg to inform you that I do not subscribe to the erroneously held opinions of Monsieur Hourcade which proclaim me as a founder of Cubism together with four of my colleagues and friends . |
| 19 | On his death-bed Stepan Vcrkhovensky returns to the swine of the gospel story and paraphrases the devils which enter them as a disease afflicting all Russia . |