Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are chemical systems which mimic it in some ways . |
| 7 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |