Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whatever other effects it may have had , Communist rule meant that the country was immune to the MacDonalds culture which has swept away the individuality of so many countries . |
| 2 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 3 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 4 | Kirkcaldy is an area which has experienced both the decline of its traditional industries of coal mining and linoleum ( and in an earlier period textiles ) and the advent of new employment opportunities in electronics , light engineering and services . |
| 5 | Sleepy Kids , which has put together a deal that could earn the Duchess up to £5 million , lost £109,000 in the six months to May . |
| 6 | Reductions they 've actually altered those in the last b budget , er which has benefitted particularly the business property element . |
| 7 | If one takes ‘ amount ’ as referring to duration and extent ( number of people affected ) , perhaps together with probability and proximity , Bentham certainly does not think that all that matters is amount , since this would be to forget intensity , which seems to mean simply the extent to which it is actually liked moment by moment . |
| 8 | However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems . |
| 9 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |