Example sentences of "[Wh det] do [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In White and Collins v. Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1939 ) the Local Authority had certain powers of compulsory purchase in relation to land which did not form part of private parkland . |
| 2 | It is sitting as chairman or lay member of a tribunal which gives tribunals expertise , just as the senior barrister appointed to the Bench will soon acquire expertise in those areas of law which did not form part of his or her practice before appointment . |
| 3 | However , he said the spray being tested on the Edinburgh mice could be used on humans as it was a non-invasive treatment which did not involve surgery or injections . |
| 4 | The local police found no incriminating evidence at the scene and they believe that the theft , which did not involve office equipment and other items of value , was done by professionals . |
| 5 | The community planner saw the NSLC as a strong and uniting force which did not create conflict between the neighbourhoods . |
| 6 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
| 8 | I here was hardly a corner of British industry in the Sixties which did not suffer strike action of one sort ; much of it lengthy , acrimonious and ultimately futile . |
| 9 | While in almost all cases the Liberal Democrats would vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not offer stability , factors such as the threat of war against Libya or an economic crisis with the pound ‘ dropping like a stone ’ would change the situation . |
| 10 | Synthesis was achieved only after some years , and only by methods which did not justify expansion to an industrial scale . |
| 11 | The results of various empirical studies of the distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) which did not study index futures are summarized in Table 7.1 . |
| 12 | That defeat effectively extinguished the independence of the Bohemian kingdom which did not find expression again until 1918 in the new state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | Most Tibbu lived in Zawiya , the central administrative settlement of Kufra ; but there were still some fifteen households at Qadr Fi , a marginally cultivable area which possessed Kufra 's only remaining palm-fronded houses , the only houses which did not have electricity and , in the central group of oases , the only ones without running water . |
| 14 | Of course to be a human one has to be male or female , Jew or Gentile : a being which did not have sex and race would not be human . |
| 15 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |
| 16 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , the Justice Ministry announced a series of reforms to abolish torture and the death penalty for 13 different crimes which did not include murder and political violence . |
| 17 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it was difficult both to secure part of the surplus from self-supporting peasant households ( with a rather low participation in any monetary economy ) and to do so on a fair basis , that is , one which did not provoke revolt . |
| 19 | Antihistamines became popular remedies for motion sickness , and a search , only marginally successful , began for effective compounds which did not cause drowsiness . |
| 20 | If the auditors ' report under s 248(3) were included in the accounts ( in a way which did not cause confusion ) , the company would be entitled to the exemptions , even if it did not take advantage of them . |
| 21 | While other network companies mooted various ideas with the ITA for absorbing LWT or making London a single franchise — ideas that were anathema — Murdoch won reluctant ITA approval to buy the General Electric Company 's 7.5 per cent of the voting shares ( and a larger block of non-voting shares , which did not require approval ) . |
| 22 | The conciliation staff did a bit of homework , and found out how fond Swindown had been over the years for concealing motion and valve gear between the frames , which did not arouse enthusiasm amongst the more portly fitters , who had plenty of experience of these delights with the collective works of F.W. Webb and other C.M.E. 's designs . |
| 23 | Even if we had a method which did not use extrapolation it would not be much use because no one would believe the result . |
| 24 | The underlying epidemiology is unknown , but is perhaps associated with pasture contamination by that proportion of ingested larvae which did not undergo hypobiosis in early summer . |
| 25 | The next line ( overscored on the only surviving copy ) reads : ‘ … and read before it by Sir Humphrey Davy ’ — an event which did not take place . |
| 26 | Kadhafi said that the government had decided on this dual response because France — which did not seek extradition of its suspects — had acted " in conformity with international law and did not infringe upon the sovereignty of Libya " . |
| 27 | 266 which did not merit preservation by the fund have been demolished , hut in most cases without controversy . |
| 28 | All files which did not concern terrorism , espionage or organized crime would be removed from police hands and given to an independent body , and people would be able to obtain photocopies of their files ( and by the deadline of March 31 , 350,000 people had applied ) . |
| 29 | It was Aunt Bessie 's death , coupled with another event , which did finally bring Mother and Father together permanently . |
| 30 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |