Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He viewed all parliaments as swamps which suck down good and bad alike : " nobody can achieve anything in parliament or through parliament . " |
| 2 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 3 | Apart from the architecture the other arts which flourished so prodigiously were those of luxury objects : in the exhibition itself were jewel caskets , lustre ware , marble capitals , window screens , carpets , arms and armour and books . |
| 4 | These areas retained the nineteenth-century characteristics which had already focused the reformers ' minds : they were tight-knit , high-density , congested , smoky , dirty and they presented a scene of old and obsolete buildings . |
| 5 | List all the characteristics which make up your Inner Face — how do you perceive yourself ? |
| 6 | In clinical applications the materials used must combine good mechanical properties with chemical characteristics which do not cause adverse reactions in the body . |
| 7 | However , it does suggest that there are recognisable " black " voice characteristics which do not operate at the level of segmental phonology , but have to do with such factors as prosodic features , voice setting , and perhaps other elements which remain to be identified . |
| 8 | We have noted the importance in Germany of the works council as a bargaining mechanism and there are numerous characteristics which have also distinguished collective bargaining in France . |
| 9 | A benign analysis of black psychology is usually reserved for characteristics which have relatively low status within psychology : for school students ' high self-esteem , for instance , rather than their achievement motivation ; or for supportive family and social relationships . |
| 10 | To be able to do this they must have tacit knowledge of the characteristics which mark off each type of situation they can identify . |
| 11 | However , such disadvantages could be minimized by elaborating the definition of extreme emotional disturbance so as to clarify its extent and its limitations , and by evolving sentencing guidelines which set out the major determinants of culpability . |
| 12 | Education authorities are required to produce guidelines which describe how children are to be allocated to schools and which outline procedures for deciding between competing claims when the number of requests for a particular school exceeds the number of places available , and to publish information about particular schools . |
| 13 | UI says that to be selected as a reference technology a company will now have to promise to provide snapshots for early access , follow established licensing and conformance guidelines which do not include pricing , and adhere to evolution requirements . |
| 14 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 15 | He combines wonderful playing and a unique , infinitely flexible voice with elusive songs which flirt sometimes with John Prine , sometimes Leonard Cohen , sometimes just himself . |
| 16 | ON the eve of the second anniversary of the intifada , a row has broken out over two popular Hebrew songs which protest strongly about treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israeli indifference to the situation . |
| 17 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 18 | This is music that does n't fart , belch or sweat , a handful of songs which do n't so much live as exist , patiently . |
| 19 | Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second . |
| 20 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 21 | Birds , snakes , lizards , fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life . |
| 22 | Animals which depend more on other senses can avoid eagle-eyed predators by moving about under cover of darkness . |
| 23 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 24 | The most unusual vision of all belongs to those animals which use not only sunlight but also the light they manufacture naturally . |
| 25 | Animals which do not have a territory mark relatively seldom . |
| 26 | ‘ Rodeo is to the United States what bullfight is to Europe : a ludicrous and cruel exploitation of animals which honours neither those who watch nor those who take part in such buffoonery , ’ she wrote to the mayor , Domninique Baudis. — Reuter |
| 27 | And they 're also afraid of his Indian wild animals which run freely around the garden . |
| 28 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 29 | Now Joyce likes cats , but is alarmed by small animals which move fast and appear unexpectedly ( this is how she described the mouse which recently terrorised her ) . |
| 30 | Animals which live permanently underwater have eyes specially adapted to the hues of their aquatic home . |