Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this process is combined with lateral shifting of the river the result will be terraces which are not paired ( Fig. 9.7 ) and which converge downstream towards the mouth of the river ( Fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 3 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 4 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 5 | Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound . |
| 6 | Mosquito netting : both doors have mosquito nets which unzip independently of the door flaps . |
| 7 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 8 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 9 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 10 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 12 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 13 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 14 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 15 | Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring . |
| 16 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 17 | Classifications of most landforms are in a sense unsatisfactory , because there is usually an infinite variety of forms , some of which fit well into a classification and others only with extreme difficulty . |
| 18 | Both " obscenity " and " indecency " are defined by reference to vague and elastic formulae , permitting forensic debates over morality which fit uneasily into the format of a criminal trial . |
| 19 | All are compact devices which fit easily in the pocket ; they are comparatively robust but , since they are radio-type equipment , they must be handled fairly carefully . |
| 20 | In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College . |
| 21 | There are a few preliminaries to be seen to before the construction can begin ; these are the winding of inductors L1 , L2 , L3 and the mounting details of the switching transistor TR1 and the flyback diode D1 on small heatsinks which attach directly to the board . |
| 22 | Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’ |
| 23 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 24 | This increases oxygen to the painful areas and at the same time removes the stagnant toxic wastes such as lactic and carbonic acids which build up in the muscle fibres . |
| 25 | The crypt was a high vaulted room , the roof being supported by thin ribs of stone which spread out from the centre , giving the impression of a bursting star . |
| 26 | Unlike the greenhouse gases , which spread evenly across the globe , sulphur dioxide 's effects are short-lived and regional . |
| 27 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |
| 28 | All of these sciences impinge peripherally on the earth sciences , and in many cases , universities with a high research orientation ranking in these sciences are also those which figure prominently in the earth sciences . |
| 29 | It is a site reached by means of a rigorous cliff walk through the pohutukawa trees which figure strongly in the painting . |
| 30 | When John Paston wanted a favour he thought that ‘ Sir George Brown , Sir James Ratcliff and others of my acquaintance which wait most upon the King and lie nightly in his chamber will put to their good wills ’ . |