Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m .
2 Furthermore , different religions may need different symbols , and it is only when they are treated as fetishes , or when they become the means whereby one religion claims superiority over another , that they cease to be of value and are fit only to be discarded .
3 At the other end of the scale , you can control everything , from the background to the text font and colour , size and weight , how each slide makes way for the next , and , innovatively for a DOS product , an accompanying sound track .
4 The way in which credit granters make this decision will affect not just how that individual uses credit but through its effect on similar individuals in the same circumstances may also affect general patterns of credit use .
5 I 'm not sure how that ambition changed course in Cape Town .
6 The investigators are studying how technical change affects employment , using plant-level data and industry time-series .
7 It is a view held not only by expert bodies and individuals but also by a substantial proportion of the general public who are not necessarily able to explain why and how this process takes place .
8 It is the question of how this transition takes place that is holding up the calling of an extraordinary general meeting for the purposes of formalising the arrangement .
9 ‘ We were originally studying how this organism causes disease and the vaccine possibly came out of that research , ’ he said .
10 Whether and how much chemotherapy prolongs survival in advanced colorectal cancer , despite its use for several decades , is not known .
11 How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down .
12 Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool .
13 It is both sublime and artistic and combines the secrets of the laboratory with arcane mysteries of creative talent and , of all things , is a documentary about how human reproduction takes place .
14 So how far back does responsibility for the massacre go ?
15 What remains to be explored is how far labour gives loyalty as a voluntary commitment .
16 Linsay Harrow looks at how one firm puts customer care into practice .
17 The rules on how any government spends money on advertising are strictly controlled .
18 A more detailed explanation of how Special Access Links function , is given in the manual ‘ Creating and Controlling Modules and Packages with LIFESPAN ’ .
19 Although concentrations of colonic platelet activating factor content were higher ( p<0.01 ) when colonic mucosa displayed cell infiltration , they were neither related to the severity nor the type of inflammatory cells .
20 If a grain or cement retains its form during alteration it is sometimes very difficult to determine when that alteration took place , unless it can be linked to other dissolution/replacement phases .
21 The very first film that ever had a room full of homosexuals and no one else , that was the name of the place where that scene took place , you see .
22 I hope that the Minister will be able to tell us why that change took place .
23 Marx in many ways was the heir of the tradition which goes back to Rousseau and much of his work is concerned with demonstrating why private property equals exploitation .
24 This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements .
25 Thus the existence of different birth rates between classes could be used against the idea of universal family allowances when prevailing opinion feared over-population .
26 They also provide the means for continuous , usage based , condition monitoring of critical systems where periodic time based maintenance may be inappropriate .
27 The place where this exorcism took place differs according to the various translations of the Gospel .
28 Consequently the two uses of the to infinitive arise from representing the extra-verbal support either as separated from the actualization of what the verb denotes by a lapse of time or as attaining the place in time where this actualization takes place .
29 On Wesrside , where this study takes place , the problems are particularly acute .
30 IN ERA when free enterprise advocates deregulation , Australian limited-over cricket seems to be heading in the opposite bureaucratic direction .
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