Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the specialized sense it covers a range of disciplines which apply to most types of literature , and it has made a very positive contribution to the understanding of the Bible . |
| 2 | was er whether the please ensure erm looking at carriageway major repairs you see area two tended to ninety three thousand pounds and that covers a lot of things which might include . |
| 3 | G. visits a couple of pollutions which have been giving trouble in the last week or two . |
| 4 | It incorporates a number of points which are critical to the analysis of the processes of political communication : |
| 5 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 6 | The statutory definition of " sale " encapsulated in s2 of SGA 1979 contains a number of ingredients which distinguish sale from other transactions . |
| 7 | English law contains a number of offences which penalize the driving of a car on a road in a manner which may cause harm . |
| 8 | The report , Proposals for statutory water objectives , contains a number of proposals which include |
| 9 | This disk contains a number of utilities which require decompression to the hard disk using StuffIt which is provided . |
| 10 | The i.c. contains a number of amplifiers whose non-inverting ( + ) inputs are controlled from a resistor or potential divider chain , see Fig. 2 . |
| 11 | The program file contains a series of instructions which it sends to the Central Processor Unit ( CPU ) when the program is run . |
| 12 | Appendix A contains a series of precedents whose use is explained in the text of these chapters . |
| 13 | The following table illustrates a range of initiatives which occur in schools . |
| 14 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 15 | A true geodesic has a criss-cross of poles which gives greater stability in high winds |
| 16 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 17 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 18 | It has a couple of switches which can be used to modify the output , one of which is /F . |
| 19 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , a bookshelf has a row of books which are mostly mundane , with some exceptions . |
| 21 | St. Giles Street , though unremarkable , has a variety of shops which will be of interest to the visitor . |
| 22 | It can run on 4Mb RAM and has a range of modules which can be loaded and unloaded as required including NFS , TCP/IP , or a System V file system . |
| 23 | Maria , 12 , who lives at Highfield Road South , Rock Ferry , Birkenhead , said : ‘ I nominated the museum because it has a lot of exhibits which visitors can handle which makes it more interesting . ’ |
| 24 | It is assumed that a text , or a film , is not something which has a set of meanings which can be extracted from it , but something whose meanings exist only because they are part of a wider social world ; people can find meanings only if their world shares some common meanings with that of the text . |
| 25 | So one has acquired scientific knowledge when one has a series of syllogisms which , on the basis of ‘ formal ’ definitions and other first principles , demonstrates that certain properties of a species must belong to it . |
| 26 | 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered . |
| 27 | The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students . |
| 28 | In Britain , accent has a number of origins which may be regional , social or ethnic . |
| 29 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 30 | Bibliotheca has a number of features which are improvements on existing text retrieval systems , including the non-necessity for indexing , the non-occurrence of retrieval noise and suitability for general users since any word can be retrieved . |