Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 2 | ( A slot meter may not be practical , for example , with a gas central heating boiler which goes out every time the money runs out and needs to be re-lit when more money is put in the meter . |
| 3 | A system of transitional payments is in operation , which slows down the effects of these changes on current claimants . |
| 4 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 5 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 6 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 7 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 8 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 9 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 10 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's — a copy of this is enclosed . |
| 11 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 12 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 13 | It is followed by a sentence of seven verbal phrases dependent on one main verb " is " which builds up a sense of being actively extended " lufand — thynkand — desirand — anedande — syngand — byrnand " yet also paradoxically " restand " . |
| 14 | Examples are La Male Honte , noted already , and Les deux Anglois et l'anel , " The two Englishmen and the anel " , which turns around a joke based on an Englishman 's inability to make a[g]nel ( lamb ) distinct from a[s]niel ( young ass ) in his attempt to speak French . |
| 15 | Below the vernier is an illuminated mute button which shuts down the output socket sited on the far right , so when the tuner is put in line between the guitar and amp it mutes the signal after the tuner , for silent tuning on stage . |
| 16 | After a three-day crisis meeting , the Communist Party Central Committee revealed an ‘ action programme for renewal ’ which holds out the prospect of free elections , a democratic coalition government and parliamentary investigations into malpractices and abuses of power . |
| 17 | Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string … |
| 18 | The analysis is also considerably weakened by the empiricism of their notion of ‘ direct , immediate experience ’ , which writes out the significance of the complex interpretive frameworks through which events , processes and facts are constructed . |
| 19 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 20 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 21 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 22 | In relation to the tap and glass metaphor we can think of these as being something like a plunger that fits over the glass and which forces down the level of stress . |
| 23 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 24 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 25 | The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk , which fills in the interior of the animal . |
| 26 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 27 | They 're , they 're built in remote places so you 've got all the , the er wild life around them and then you 've got er farmland which uses pesticide and stuff like , which kills off the insect life and to birds all young and stuff like that . |
| 28 | It 's the issue of the name which conjures up the problems . ’ |
| 29 | New Historicism is , therefore , fundamentally concerned to be aware of its critical project and considers that any inquiry into the past must be based upon a current critical partiality which marks out the inquisitor 's history . |
| 30 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |