Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore you will need to rewrite that in a way which mean something to modern erm , readers . |
| 2 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 3 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 4 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 5 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 6 | In the USA , the particularly distinctive features of unionism which distinguish it from that found in most continental European countries include ‘ job consciousness and job control , business unionism , an overwhelming emphasis upon economic struggle and collective bargaining , as opposed to broad political reform of the society and the economy ’ ( Kassalow , 1969 , p. 6 ) . |
| 7 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 8 | Campbell suggests that there are extra pressures on girls which push them towards certain types of crime . |
| 9 | It is busy , open all hours , and full of shops which sell anything from ancient Chinese herbs and medicines to electronic gadgetry . |
| 10 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 11 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 12 | He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation . |
| 13 | Some people develop very strong appetites for recognition and are attracted to jobs which provide them with endless ‘ jellybeans ’ ; for example , the reward systems of the armed services , higher education and the professions offer substantial opportunities to be recognized and praised for one 's performance . |
| 14 | As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity . |
| 15 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 16 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 17 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 18 | There are chemical systems which mimic it in some ways . |
| 19 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 20 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 21 | Using interviews with parents , and attendance figures from schools , the study documents how parents make difficult decisions which confront them in these circumstances , in particular whether or not to consult a doctor , and whether or not to keep the child off school . |
| 22 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 23 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 24 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 25 | In the New Left Review , Benedict Anderson has made sharp criticisms of the work of the journalist and poet James Fenton which compare it with that of Kapuscinski and Naipaul . |
| 26 | Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984 . |
| 27 | In my professional work , I repeatedly have conversations with educated clients — especially male clients — which go something like this : " Yes , yes — you 've told me what you think , and what you did , but I wonder how you felt ? " |
| 28 | European shareholders have ‘ pre-emption rights ’ which entitle them to first call on secondary offerings ; and underwriting is common practice for new issues , too . |
| 29 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 30 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |