Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he invoked opium directly , leaving no doubt as to the limitless power which the drug-user feels he has been given : |
| 2 | It was the excitement and potential violence which the BUF seemed to offer which proved the biggest recruiting spur . |
| 3 | Paul Baines has shown that this is caused by the essential or volatile oils , which the alchemists considered to be the soul of a plant . |
| 4 | Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them . |
| 5 | A lion roars in the dense thicket into which the watercourse runs . |
| 6 | A well-qualified man named Akers is selected on the basis of his impressively durable character , after which the plot takes surprising twists we dare not reveal . |
| 7 | But no matter whether the ballet lasts one , two or three acts the choreographer must be fully in control of his material so that every detail of the characterisation of the whole cast is appropriate to the general atmosphere and environment within which the plot unfolds . |
| 8 | Pravda , the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow , has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov , dated March 21st 1992 , in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury , or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known , in detail . |
| 9 | Earlier the physical journey of the pilgrimage had been one of the chief disciplines by means of which the Cluniacs had managed to reshape the consciousness of Europe . |
| 10 | Pamela also appeared angry and seemed to wish the therapist to speak for her , which the therapist resisted . |
| 11 | Central to problem-solving is a general approach in which the therapist tries to help the patient draw on his own resources to overcome his problems . |
| 12 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
| 13 | The REDUCTION DIVISION is immediately followed by the second meiotic division at right angles to the first in which the chromosomes form a normal metaphase arrangement and separate their chromatids in the normal mitotic fashion . |
| 14 | Wealth and technological superiority are by far its greatest military assets , dying is not popular among either American soldiers or civilians , and until Gorbachev came along , a world war against the Soviets was the only one for which the Pentagon prepared . |
| 15 | This was set against the teaching and learning which the Inspectorate had observed in their school sample . |
| 16 | We saw God in the children 's faces and the way in which the mums learned to trust us with their children . |
| 17 | It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred . |
| 18 | The concern in the present section is with purely reactive circuits and it is worth noting that in dual versions the frequencies at which the reactance becomes zero or infinite is the same , one circuit being resonant ( ) whenever the other is antiresonant ( ) and vice versa . |
| 19 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 20 | He helped design and build a new bandstand , an open-air bathroom , a sunbathing shelter and a stage for the plays which the prisoners took part in . |
| 21 | when the period ( if any ) fixed for the duration of the company by the articles expires , or the event ( if any ) occurs , on the occurrence of which the articles provide that the company is to be dissolved , and the company in general meeting has passed a resolution requiring it to be wound up voluntarily ; |
| 22 | But it may be argued that ‘ conduct ’ includes the circumstances in which the conduct takes place , including such matters as the time of day or night in addition to the ferocity of the attack . |
| 23 | Later in the article three specific cases are mentioned in which the conduct complained of was not , at the time , an offence , other than public nuisance : Reg. v. Wheeler , The Times , 17 December 1971 ; Reg. v. Madden [ 1975 ] 1 W.L.R. 1379 and Reg. v. Holme [ 1984 ] C.L.Y . |
| 24 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 25 | This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices . |
| 26 | This is the main hinterland which the port serves , although some orders come from as far as London , South Wales or Scotland . |
| 27 | Research which the BA has recently commissioned shows that , as never before , the book buying public is one homogeneous whole and not , as some people still believe , a series of finite and separate markets . |
| 28 | Overhead is the splendid architraved knife-edge about which the guidebook says : ‘ Delightful open and delicate climbing … ‘ and : ‘ Small wires have made a difference to this once very bold lead . ’ |
| 29 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 30 | Oil wells which the PDVSA considered to be " marginal " would be offered to international oil companies to develop . |