Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] or [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable .
2 Evidence can be defined as information which establishes or disproves a fact or a point in question .
3 In ‘ Ease , Into Place and Grow Accustomed ’ ( 1987 ) , the steamy blinding oranges , sonorous azure blues and the more synthetic , interior quality of an intense billiard-table green hint at the ways in which colour operates simultaneously on the one level as pre-verbal , as bodily sensation or perception , and on the other as a sign or symbol which modifies or disrupts a system or construction .
4 ‘ The court may grant the application if — ( a ) the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross demand which equals or exceeds the amount of the debt or debts specified in the statutory demand ; or ( b ) the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial ; or … ( d ) the court is satisfied , on other grounds , that the demand ought to be set aside .
5 Safer sex is any kind of sex which reduces or eliminates the risk of blood , semen or vaginal juices getting from one person into the other 's body .
6 An exemption clause is one which excludes or restricts the liability of a party who is in breach of contract .
7 Energy with wavelengths within these window regions is not absorbed but may be subject to a process called scattering which deflects or redirects the energy .
8 First , it ignores the infrastructure necessary to support the trainer ( let alone the training of trainers themselves ) which doubles or triples the resources required .
9 It must be remembered that a clause which restricts or excludes an obligation or duty is not an exclusion clause for the purposes of s3 .
10 Granted that it is possible to initiate the civilisation of a child by giving it a knowledge of right and wrong , the question arises ‘ How does this knowledge become an automatic power of conscience which enables or compels the child , and later the adult , to act accordingly ? ’ .
11 creating a polymer film at the air-tear interface which supports or drags a layer of water along with it as it spreads out over the ocular surface with each blink .
12 The problem arises in connection with section 99 which adapts or applies the provisions to cases where an individual rather than the local authority wishes to make the complaint .
13 Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment .
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