Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those who insist on a modern digital recording , as distinct from digitally remastered analogue sound , will find a remarkably wide choice . |
| 2 | There is a distinct rural segment of this class which is made up of small commercial farmers , who depend on a casual labour supply . |
| 3 | People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm slightly worried about people who adopt as a standard things that have n't been implemented . |
| 6 | However , in the absence of clear evidence and when the fiscal debate is difficult to resolve , it is possible that those who begin with a public choice framework may be led to quite different reform proposals from those who approach the issue from a more traditional framework . |
| 7 | It allowed a maintained secondary school , or a primary school with over 300 pupils ( extended in 1990 to all primary schools ) , on the resolution of its governing body , with the consent of a majority of those parents who vote in a secret postal ballot , and with the approval of the Secretary of State , to opt out of LEA finance and control , and be given ‘ grant-maintained ’ status . |
| 8 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
| 9 | The children , who stand in a small cluster near the goat enclosure , now look at each other and laugh , too , but when the laibon swings his impressive , lidded gaze towards them , they freeze . |
| 10 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 11 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 12 | Or who know about a different God to mine . |
| 13 | Nor do all who participate in a joint enterprise agree to its occurrence . |
| 14 | Where these signs are not obvious , subtler discriminations can be made : Quebecois who refuse to understand anglophones who talk in a Canadian accent , will respond to anglophones who talk with a British or US intonation , as Flemings who claim not to understand French spoken with a Belgian accent , understand French French . |
| 15 | More dangerous , those who talk of a British constitution may mislead themselves into thinking that there are parts of the system to which a special sanctity attaches . |
| 16 | Where these signs are not obvious , subtler discriminations can be made : Quebecois who refuse to understand anglophones who talk in a Canadian accent , will respond to anglophones who talk with a British or US intonation , as Flemings who claim not to understand French spoken with a Belgian accent , understand French French . |
| 17 | Ultimately , however , there is still the problem of the individuals who rely on a poor frequency of public transport and this can be the most significant feature of isolation . |
| 18 | Is not it time that the Government , who pay in a massive amount of money — equivalent to a net contribution of £3 a week per family — simply deducted £109 million from the vast amount that they send to Brussels every month ? |
| 19 | For those who believe in a mythical golden age , when men and women lived in an idyll unspoilt by machines , then Birmingham is a brutal reminder of the victory of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | In particular I know of no estimates of the numbers who continue on a part-time basis , undeclared for tax , to sell skills acquired during their working life time . |
| 21 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |
| 22 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 23 | But it is just this sort of judgment which those who argue for a unfudgeable standard do not wish to see exercised . |
| 24 | In a crisis , there are two sorts of people : There are those who go into a blind panic . |
| 25 | Villagers are especially concerned for the safety of children and youngsters who play on a small triangle of grass underneath the bypass . |
| 26 | Blyth , back in fifth place , are hoping striker Don Peattie , and defenders Steve Locker and Steve Plaskett , will pass fitness tests for their home game with Consett , who choose from a full squad of 17 players . |
| 27 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |
| 28 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 29 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 30 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |