Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fast paced , well acted , beautifully filmed in the famed Blue Ridge Mountains , possibly the last forested wilderness of the United States , this is a movie which insists you sit on the edge of your seat while skulls are cleaved and scalps lifted by the score . |
| 2 | If you are under eighteen you could join a pony club , which involves you going to at least two meetings a year . |
| 3 | No one would accuse the Americans of being frightened of the new , or the Indians of refusing to show emotion , or of inability to communicate , but all need to work in an environment which encourages them to give of their best , and encourages them to look outwards rather than inwards . |
| 4 | Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father . |
| 5 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 6 | It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful . |
| 7 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 8 | They accumulate abnormal amounts of sugar which causes them to swell during development . |
| 9 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 10 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 11 | oh yes , which evers you wan na make |
| 12 | This is combined with a cosmopolitan diet which allows them to feed on most living or dead animal matter . |
| 13 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 14 | About a third of the estimated six million Britons living abroad are believed to qualify under a 1989 amendment to the 1985 Representation of the People Act which allows them to register as proxy voters . |
| 15 | There are certainly criteria being fulfilled which allows me to deal by means of a formal caution . |
| 16 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 17 | The crooked tycoon who plunged overboard from his yacht a year ago assigned his wife a sub-lease which allows her to live in part of the Victorian mansion regardless of the impending sale of the 15 acre estate . |
| 18 | An odd , and possibly unique feature of the statue is that the horse 's tail hangs from a ball-and-socket joint which allows it to sway in the wind . |
| 19 | We also offer International Factoring , which allows you to sell on open account terms , in sterling or foreign currency , and so can help your competitive position . |
| 20 | Some teachers say it is useful to have a pact with someone else , preferably another teacher , which allows you to complain in the most dreadful and unreasonable way to each other , in turn , for a fixed period of time like ten minutes . |
| 21 | Figures ( on this screen ) MUST NOT be passed onto a third party ( i.e. appear in a paper , report or thesis ) , or passed verbally to anyone not named on the Notice ( or other authorisation which allows you access to the census of employment data ) without DE branch D4 's WRITTEN authority . |
| 22 | In 1979 a French guidebook described Great Britain as ‘ the only place in the world which allows you to depart from this planet without really leaving it . ’ |
| 23 | The main 10-band EQ system ( plus two further sliders for input gain and volume ) is augmented by a smaller , manually-adjusted 7-band ‘ acoustic correction ’ system which allows you to compensate for the acoustics of each gig , without having to go back into your preset program — positive thinking on the part of Decimax . |
| 24 | As the arch will lower the height of the opening at the sides , you 'll be limited to a style which allows you to walk under it freely if that height is quite low . |
| 25 | Or would you rather have the security of knowing that , whenever in the years to come your employer may decide , for whatever reason , that you should go , you will be cushioned by a generous notice period which allows you to look for something else without the fear that very shortly the money will be running out ? |
| 26 | To avoid confusion we need some sort of structure which allows us to focus on one thing at a time . |
| 27 | I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority . |
| 28 | So Open Server for Kix is an A P I , an application programming interface , which allows us to get at S Q L data on D B Two S Q L , but also allows us to get at any another database or application system which resides in . |
| 29 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 30 | He got de temp'ry permit which clears him to work for up to six month , but I hear you makin' him your general manager which got to last more than that , is n't it ? ’ |