Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the smaller ones which concentrate very largely on teacher education , which is to be subject to substantial reductions , look particularly vulnerable .
2 The results of such changes are institutions which concentrate very largely on advanced vocational and general courses .
3 He uses language and imagery which communicate most precisely the truths he wishes to convey to a specific audience .
4 So back they switch , to shorter repayment periods — which mean not merely higher monthly instalments but in this case very much higher APRs as well .
5 The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table .
6 What we have not changed is what has made the book so popular with your students , in particular the themes which combine so well the requirements of the exam with the interests of students at this age .
7 And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed .
8 She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck .
9 She was grateful not only to be with her aunt and uncle in that last year , but to be near Ernest and Charlotte so that they could discuss , usually when the older couple had gone to bed , the life which lay so tantalisingly before them .
10 Heavy clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles which bind together tightly and cling to the water around them , making the clay sticky and difficult to work .
11 The photon-correlation experiment utilises two such switches , which change randomly relatively to each other , with a switching time of 10 nanoseconds ( 10 thousand-millionths of a second ) .
12 Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards .
13 Furthermore , it could be possible to update locally certain factors in the Jarman index more regularly , especially unemployment rates , which change so rapidly .
14 There are archetypal anecdotes which crop up again and again in one form or another .
15 For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ .
16 The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often .
17 The questions ‘ where are we going ? ’ , and ‘ what are they doing ? ’ are concerns which crop up more and more .
18 But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly .
19 We will create new community health authorities , representative of local people , which bring together both GP services and hospital care .
20 The female worms are ovo-viviparous , producing eggs containing fully developed larvae which hatch almost immediately .
21 Instead of top-down co-ordination of the work-flow in the form of superordinate commands and surveillance , the kanban system allows for communication flows which co-ordinate horizontally rather than vertically .
22 To some extent , it broke new ground by placing emphasis on organic wastes , such as food scraps and garden litter , which make up over half of all household waste .
23 Britain 's alders , which make up as much as one-third of river bank , lakeside and wetland tree cover , may be threatened with extinction by a mystery disease .
24 None the less , its heavy dependence on exports of minerals , especially gold and diamonds ( which make up about 80 per cent of export earnings ) , make it vulnerable to fluctuations in the world market , and to sanctions imposed by some members of the international community .
25 The figure of 180 000 tonnes refer to almond kernels , which make up about 60 per cent of the total weight in California .
26 The withdrawal of English Heritage from looking after the Grade II listed buildings in the capital — those which make up much of its historic fabric — is viewed as alarming because it involves dismantling the highly professional architectural conservation division , with its unifying role , which English Heritage inherited in 1986 when the Greater London Council was abolished .
27 The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons , which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter , can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons .
28 Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable .
29 We could plant softwood trees which grow much quicker .
30 Bones which grow so fast need lots of calcium .
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