Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lecturer at the Architectural Exhibition of 1861 noted that ‘ we can not afford to ignore the element of association which now more than ever connects our idea of churches with good Gothic architecture . |
| 2 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 3 | ‘ The question of how to resolve the fear which so many people have in Hong Kong was omitted , ’ said Peter Harris , a political scientist . |
| 4 | Another instance of apparent passive margin asymmetry is provided by the eastern margin of Australia , which has a marked upwarp which forms the Great Dividing Range , and the Lord Howe Rise which represents a now submerged fragment of continental crust which around 95 Ma BP. rifted away from eastern Australia studies of extensional terranes , such as the Basin and Range Province of the south-western USA , using seismic methods have revealed shallow-dipping faults which appear to extend through the entire lithosphere . |
| 5 | These community groups themselves provide a range of welfare and cultural services and can help reduce the isolation which so many refugees experience . |
| 6 | The railways provided a cheap , efficient method of bulk transportation which dramatically lowered costs . |
| 7 | What was once a polite lament over lost species and habitats has become an outcry , a powerful force which both national and international authorities can no longer ignore . |
| 8 | But , of course , this was a conscious attempt by liberal theorists to settle political issues by reference to what T. H. Marshall has called ‘ social citizenship ’ , thereby evading those more difficult questions of economic inequality which so concerned late Victorian and Edwardian commentators . |
| 9 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
| 10 | cottage which quite nice . |
| 11 | Research is commonly taken to be the specialist and reserved occupation of theorists , an activity which is carried out in detachment from the immediacy of actual events and requiring knowledge and expertise of a kind which only academic intellectuals can legitimately claim to have . |
| 12 | Regional identity is a theoretical category which as such is not of much obvious importance for one 's everyday life . |
| 13 | ‘ I ai n't nobody 's master , ’ she said with the slight thrust of her jaw which always amused and moved him . |
| 14 | You can enjoy these pictures for their truth to nature , their communication of experience which so many of us have shared . |
| 15 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 16 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 17 | One of the earliest military initiatives of the new state — the raising of an expeditionary force to suppress the Irish rebellion — was partly motivated both by security considerations and by the prospect of financial gain , but was also widely seen as a religious crusade ; this fact was clearly demonstrated in the autumn of 1649 , when Cromwell 's soldiers attacked the Catholic inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford with a savagery which only religious conflict can engender . |
| 18 | Mr. Barrett worked in the Town Yard , Mr. Reeves was a jobbing gardener whilst Mr. Sanger , who was a poulterer , was always in demand each Christmas when the chicken which so many residents kept were due to be plucked and prepared for the table . |
| 19 | The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate . |
| 20 | She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it . |
| 21 | The Romero regime ( 1977–9 ) responded to this growing militancy with the introduction of a Public Order Law which effectively banned strike action . |
| 22 | However , the agrarian reform followed a March 1959 Rent Law which greatly dismayed property owners by introducing statutory reductions of 50 per cent for the very poorest tenants ( those paying less than 100 pesos per month ) and 40–30 per cent decreases for those in higher income brackets . |
| 23 | This is very far from the attitude which almost all religions agree is essential for understanding and which is encapsulated in the parable of the pearl of great price . |
| 24 | The loss of dignity , individuality , initiative , decisiveness and independence which nearly all the observers report of the Peruvians is the consequence of ego-degradation and replacement of the superego by the external coercion of the state . |
| 25 | I have bo proof , but I believe that the heartening increase in our total reflects , at least in part , a growing awareness in this centre of mounted successful commerce that the modest , hectic and rather untidy operation mounted each May in the portico of our Church , by ordinary members , represents a dimension which even those Edmund Burke described as ‘ sophisters , economists and calculators ’ had to take into account . |
| 26 | The idea of total space no longer sounds strange to the European whose once implacable materialism has been subjected to both Dada and contemporary science . |
| 27 | Not for her that studied aloofness which so many attractive women mistakenly affect . |
| 28 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 29 | The Bishop of Chester proposed an amendment which still condemned lesbian and gay sex but put no obligation on bishops to punish in any way people who took part in it . |
| 30 | Gorbachev resigned on Aug. 24 as the general secretary of the CPSU ( Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) , a post which only two days earlier he had appeared unwilling to renounce ; the party 's activities were suspended and its central committee dissolved . |