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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Campbell suggests that there are extra pressures on girls which push them towards certain types of crime . |
| 6 | It is busy , open all hours , and full of shops which sell anything from ancient Chinese herbs and medicines to electronic gadgetry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles . |
| 17 | The eggs of other shrimps , by contrast , are not waterproof , but possess thick spongy coverings which protect them from bright sunlight and abrasion . |
| 18 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |
| 19 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 20 | Although [ 8 ] - [ 11 ] are broadly referentially equivalent , in the sense that they " tell the same story " , there are subtle differences which invest them with different stylistic values . |
| 21 | The term set is used in its generally accepted modern sense , that is a collection of items which have something in common . |
| 22 | You look at these two and ask : ‘ What have they in common , apart from their jobs ? ’ |