Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 2 | In its inaugural declaration the DLP promised to achieve a " new national history of democracy , prosperity and national reunification " , and to operate as a " reform-oriented democratic party which protects and promotes the liberal democratic political system and free market system " . |
| 3 | The difference between a living organism and one just newly dead is that something which we call life has departed , something which we can neither see , hear , smell , touch , weigh or in any physical sense quantify , but which animates and directs the physical organism while it is alive , and gives it the power to counteract the forces of disintegration and decay . |
| 4 | Witness its monuments to the dead of the Second World War : old synagogues are preserved , public buildings stand as memorials , and — unique in the world — Amsterdam has its own Homomonument , which commemorates and mourns the homosexual victims of fascism . |
| 5 | A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock . |
| 6 | … a special pleading which exaggerates the stupidity , rancour , and provocative role of the authorities to the point of absurdity ; or by an academic failure of imagination , which compartmentalises and disregards the whole weight of popular tradition … |
| 7 | CHEST ( the Combined Higher Education Software Team ) has also purchased SASPAC91 , the package which accesses and manipulates the Small Area and Local Base Statistics , developed for the 1991 datasets by the London Research Centre . |