Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this process is combined with lateral shifting of the river the result will be terraces which are not paired ( Fig. 9.7 ) and which converge downstream towards the mouth of the river ( Fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 2 | This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 4 | Thus in the yellow part of the Sun 's rainbow band there are two dark lines which correspond exactly to the two bright yellow lines of sodium , and we can prove that there is sodium in the Sun . |
| 5 | The report recommended a number of wide-ranging changes to company reporting , many of which correspond closely with the recommendations put forward in the UK by Sir Ron Dearing . |
| 6 | We can distinguish broadly between the intention of knowing , and the intention of doing , which correspond roughly to the conventional distinction between pure and applied . |
| 7 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 8 | By contrast , regions which lose out in the early development will see even their initial potential undermined relative to the growth-regions . |
| 9 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 10 | Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound . |
| 11 | She stared in horror at the whitened , frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered , canvas sheet . |
| 12 | Mosquito netting : both doors have mosquito nets which unzip independently of the door flaps . |
| 13 | Theft is covered by the treaty but other offences which crop up in the Guinness case , such as common law conspiracy to rig the market and breaches of the Companies Act , do not . |
| 14 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 15 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 16 | We assume that at some critical r-value , r* , there is a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a , and consider , for r-values close to r* , whether or not there are any trajectories which remain forever within the regions B U 5 U T. Providing that we choose B , 5 and T to be small enough , with r close enough to r* , and that we are only concerned with the topology of trajectories , it is permissible to regard the flow within B as linear , and to think of the map which takes points in the discs D and D " to points in the discs E and E " as a linear transformation . |
| 17 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 18 | The name Mývatn means ‘ midge lake ’ and the principal reason the lake supports a large population of birds and fish is the astronomical numbers of chironomid and simuliid larvae which hatch out in the clear water . |
| 19 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 20 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 21 | The complicated nature of this debate is also shown by the fact that analysis of General Household Survey data for 1974 by Klein and Collins reached results which disagree somewhat with the findings reported so far . |
| 22 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 24 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 25 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 26 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 27 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 28 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 29 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 30 | Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring . |