Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 2 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Metropolitan police launched such a campaign on9 December , which involves providing specially adapted bins near police stations where people can deposit knives . |
| 3 | His solution is the pragmatic one , common at the time , which involves establishing as large and vague a syllabus as possible and leaving a great deal of choice to students . |
| 4 | A discipline of competitive windsurfing which involves racing around a course marked by a series of buoys . |
| 5 | Help which involves working directly with the pupil in class or specialist subject room must be geared towards increasing , not reducing , the level of personal independence of the visually handicapped pupil ; this aim needs to be discussed by the teacher and teacher 's aid and to be understood and accepted . |
| 6 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 7 | Water sharing talks were held in Vienna on May 13-14 , chaired by Austria , and attended by more than 30 delegations , which agreed to meet again later in the year to discuss a number of issues including the creation of an international data-base on water , cross-border co-operation , methods of water management and ways to increase water resources . |
| 8 | You want to go across the grass and you 'll hit a path which goes left up there , past those houses . |
| 9 | If such ventures encourage better design for older people , they will undoubtedly banish practices which are unhelpful to most people , whatever their age : power points on skirting boards , washing machines which make you bend double to get the washing out , videorecorder cabinets which mean crawling around on the floor to put on tapes — all three are candidates for design improvements . |
| 10 | Instant pricing is also available with NatWest Touchscreen , which offers dealing in more than 500 stocks . |
| 11 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 12 | Although not all authorities responded ( and it was those with strong Conservative majorities which failed to do so ) , the effect of the circular was dramatic . |
| 13 | Because , in numerical terms , fewer showed a relationship with depression than those which failed to do so , he concludes that the relationship is probably absent . |
| 14 | This remains good practice although an affidavit which failed to do so would not be defective . |
| 15 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 16 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 17 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 18 | They allowed the banking system to respond to demands from capitalists for credit at rates of interest which failed to keep up with inflation ( that is , at declining ‘ real ’ interest rates ) . |
| 19 | Of course the cruder methods of pressing grapes in those days would often have resulted in rather murky-looking wines which failed to clear properly . |
| 20 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 21 | It is recorded that the area north of the river was probably uninhabitable with dense forests to the north and east of the area which became known later as Middlesex , with heath and scrub to the south , except along the margin of the river , which ‘ margin ’ was of considerable width . |
| 22 | The advance of these oil-producing countries , which became known collectively as the ‘ non-OPEC ’ group , was a notable feature of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | The recession also led to the demand for the provision of greater economic security for the average citizen , which became embodied subsequently in the growth of the welfare state following the election of the Labour Government in 1945 . |
| 24 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 25 | The ultimate in this line is the standing order , usually employed for annuals , which tend to go out of print very quickly once advance subscriptions are satisfied . |
| 26 | When I started travelling extensively in trains ( 1966 ) , which tend to go faster for longer than bicycle , car or bus , I could think better . |
| 27 | Such reserves are most commonly made by fields which , for various reasons such as the general practice of interviewing , tend to fill more slowly ( e.g. applied education and visual studies ) , and with other fields which tend to fill quickly ( e.g. psychology ) . |
| 28 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 29 | ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho . |
| 30 | HRT is also of benefit for the intermediate symptoms of the menopause , those that do not appear until some time after periods have stopped but which tend to get more noticeable and troublesome as the years go by . |