Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wave velocity so determined is related to the relevant elastic modulus by equations which are simple if a symmetry axis coincides with the direction of wave propagation , but more complex otherwise . |
| 2 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 3 | It is a written promise , which is better than a verbal one . |
| 4 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 5 | You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds . |
| 6 | If you took the lowest number of booklets which is two and a half thousand which is probably may be a two sometimes three three doctor practice |
| 7 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |
| 8 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 9 | Which is cheap cos a lot of non-alcoholic wines are expensive . |
| 10 | The numbers coming to meetings can vary from 4 to 24 which is uncomfortable if a speaker is booked and I do not know how many will come . |
| 11 | And the market the market size really for in year one is two and a half percent which is fourteen and a half million litres of water . |
| 12 | but you had a eight to finish with which is finishing and a one , two , three might not be and a better run so I think I would have been tempted to finish with the ace flush there try and stop me rather than trying to win it cos you had nothing else did you ? |
| 13 | ( A sister carpet to the Ardebil , which is incomplete because a portion of it was used to repair the one in London , is held in the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art . ) |
| 14 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 15 | The word appears twice in Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov outlining Crime and Punishment , in the phrase ‘ unsteadiness of ideas ’ — which is natural since a drama of reflection is about to unfold : thinking is Raskolnikov 's work , as he tells the maid Nastasya . |
| 16 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 17 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 18 | Nor does the Athenaion Politeia say more than that on certain matters the Boule does not have the final decision ( xlv ) , which is less than a direct and triumphant assertion of the Assembly 's sovereignty . |
| 19 | Observed in operation on visits to schools , Easton 's community relations police were quickly able to establish a rapport with the children and revelled in the joking and informal banter , although Easton is fortunate in having very experienced constables with long service in community relations , which is vital because a three-week course hardly qualifies as sufficient training . |
| 20 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 21 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 22 | Well , you know , I always , I 'm always you have to drink two pints a day , which is more than a litre . |
| 23 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
| 24 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 25 | In an attempt to sway Scottish shareholders of Distillers and to influence Scottish public opinion ( which was anxious that a merger with Guinness might reduce Distillers ' involvement in Scotland ) , Guinness promised during the campaign that the ‘ largest part of our business will be Scottish-based ’ , that Scotland would be the ‘ decision-making centre ’ of the company and that Sir Thomas Risk , Governor of the Bank of Scotland , would be appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the combined group . |
| 26 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 27 | We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions , the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed . |
| 28 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 29 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 30 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |