Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though there is in Layarion 's Brut no expression of " religious belief " or " moral intention " , there can be no doubt that " the writer is a man of a high and generous nature , with a true reverence for whatsoever things are lovely and of good report , and rich in every human quality which goes to make a man and a poet " . |
| 2 | He was not as promiscuous as the other classical gods , and actually rejected the lovely NYMPH Clytie who pined for him until her body became a beautiful flower — the heliotrope — which turns to watch the sun 's progress across the sky each day . |
| 3 | One stands naked facing front with her arms raised around her head which turns to face the sea . |
| 4 | We can not afford to have failures in a health system which needs to use every hospital and every health care worker if it is to cope with the demands of the twenty first century . |
| 5 | If a dispute arose over , for example , which questions to ask an interviewee , the ensuing discussion polarised pupils into groups that did not correspond to their schools . |
| 6 | Even the Royal Academy , which has to earn every penny of its keep , does not think that way , and yet it manages to make money . |
| 7 | She packs me bag upon me back which has to last a week . |
| 8 | This places an unmanageable burden on syntactic and semantic filtering which has to select the target word-string from all its competitors . |
| 9 | The Banco Popolare di Bergamo , one of Italy 's oldest banks , will be replacing all of the character-based OA software used in its 240 branches with Applix 's Aster*x on Sparcstations and link to Oracle 's RDMS : the $18m deal is reportedly worth $1m-plus to Applix which has to convert the software to Italian . |
| 10 | A QUARRY company which wants to operate a plant on Sundays has claimed the move will make the jobs of its 50-strong workforce ‘ more secure ’ . |
| 11 | The proposed Maasvlakte plant had been criticized by environmentalists and Rotterdam City Council , together with the US petrochemical company Texaco , which wants to build a coal gasification plant in the country . |
| 12 | SUNDAY night is dance night for a group which loves to waltz the evening away . |
| 13 | The licence has been granted to Isotron , which plans to use the technology on stocks of black pepper . |
| 14 | Even the Art Loss Register , which plans to open an office in Japan , carefully avoids any probing into the subject . |
| 15 | A COMPANY which plans to buy the Brymbo steelworks site is being urged to withdraw to allow the local authorities to redevelop the land . |
| 16 | A company in eastern Germany which plans to make a fridge free of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) is struggling financially and is in danger of being liquidated . |
| 17 | Half the art of search lies in choosing a language which suffices to describe the task and an adequate solution but very little more . |
| 18 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |
| 19 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 20 | A unique feature is a cockpit lid which reverses to become a cartop transporter . |
| 21 | Erm , Alton Towers is a really marvellous addition to the Group er , which intends to develop the business further both by attracting more visitors er , with new and exciting rides and also , er , by , through their unique knack of increasing visitor spending levels . |
| 22 | It is the mind of the medium , not the soul , which travels during a seance and which acts to defend the community in an altruistic manner . |
| 23 | If Chafe ( 1977 ) is correct , then BSL would represent a language which tends to emphasise the storage and recall of events , whereas English requires much more superficial specificity in recall . |
| 24 | Find the torque which tends to align the rotor in the arrangement shown in Fig. 4.20 with 0 = 45° and 135° , ( i ) when the rotor carries no current , and ( ii ) when it carries a direct current of 2 A. The rotor inductance is 1 H and the stator inductance has maximum and minimum values 1 H and 0.2 H. Assume that periodic inductances vary in a sinusoidal manner and that the coils are perfectly coupled when they are in line . |
| 25 | Exclusivism frequently occurs unintentionally but nevertheless effectively through the teaching of separate subject areas which tends to give the impression that they offer a complete explanation of something . |
| 26 | This breakdown above the tropopause arises from the greater infrared transparency of the atmosphere at such altitudes due to the lower atmospheric densities , and because the atmosphere there is appreciably heated by the direct absorption of solar radiation which tends to give an increase of temperature with height . |
| 27 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 28 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 29 | If the rotor is slightly displaced from the step position a force is developed between the stator and rotor teeth ( Harris et al. , 1977 ) giving a torque which tends to return the rotor to the step position ; a rotor displacement in the negative direction produces a positive torque and a positive displacement results in a negative torque . |
| 30 | Overetching , particularly with Alizarin red S , produces a very dense stain which tends to spread a precipitate even over dolomite and quartz if they are present . |