Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [Wh det] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 2 | Mm well she 's having another bedroom which make it four bedrooms . |
| 3 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 4 | But Wilde also fashioned his transgressive aesthetic into a celebration of anarchic deviance , and this is yet another factor which makes it difficult to identify the sensibility involved . |
| 5 | From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me ! |
| 6 | It is this status which makes them popular and marketable . |
| 7 | More success followed against West Indies back at home , then came the series earlier this year which confirmed his rich talent . |
| 8 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 9 | There were additional factors with this family which compounded their inevitable distress , not least the subsequent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in an elder son , in whom signs of clinical abnormality had been recognised before the birth of his younger brother . |
| 10 | It is these adaptations which make it such a fascinating bird . |
| 11 | It is these muscles which make it possible to stand up straight and bend over to lift objects . |
| 12 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 13 | Its authority is clearly based on Smart 's intimacy with the artist 's work and the many aspects which influenced it social ( highly important in this case ) , artistic and intellectual . |
| 14 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 15 | Well it 's a both a fortunate and unfortunate circumstance as a result of the by-out a sorry as a result of the floatation we cut a great many costs which reduced our taxable profits but at the same time we did actually pay some divides and we 've also pay some dividends here in last year anyway . |
| 16 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 17 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
| 18 | There is no lack of evidence here for his concern for the welfare of his cathedral church and of the monasteries and churches of his diocese ; but this occasionally confused register suggests , even so , a bishop with political and financial interests which extended beyond routine local and parochial concerns , for it includes many documents which show his close interest in international political developments . |
| 19 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 20 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 21 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 22 | One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures . |
| 23 | First , those items which make it difficult to recognise specific abilities in a child will be of less value than those which provide descriptions that can easily be applied . |
| 24 | Considering the links between mathematical development and language should be an important aspect of any curriculum which recognises our multicultural society . |
| 25 | ( 10 ) Because members of the Panel executive and the full Panel are often seconded from merchant banks , stockbrokers , firms of solicitors and accountants they may have to excuse themselves from dealing with any case which involves their employing company or firm . |
| 26 | When walking the fine line between bad taste and biting satire , offending your audience and getting them to laugh at themselves , Wayans is guided by only one credo : ‘ It 's our own imperfections which make us funny . |
| 27 | ‘ Any company which says its prime goal is to create shareholder value should report its performance in those terms , ’ C&L 's Richard Barfield told a recent conference on corporate governance . |
| 28 | SCOTLAND will bid to lift their third Triple Crown in nine years when they travel to Twickenham on Saturday week with the same line-up which did them proud in the 20-0 victory over Wales . |