Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 With so low a response rate , two questions arose concerning the representativeness of the data : whether any particular subgroup of teachers , for example , deputy heads , heads of departments , assistant teachers , were over-represented ; and whether the non-respondents as a subgroup held views about SSE which systematically differed from those of the respondents .
2 Not only the statesmen of the age but also public opinion , partly sheltered from the realities of war by the employment of mainly professional armies , were untouched by the enthusiasm for peace which usually prompted such schemes and indifferent to the dreams which they embodied .
3 The CNAA uses the category of pass degree both for courses which do not aim to achieve honours standard , and as a probationary validation category for courses which eventually acquire honours status ; it should be noted that staffing and other learning resources are significant factors in such validation .
4 So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate .
5 Wassall made a £113.2m hostile bid for Evode which then entered into discussions with Laporte about a recommended bid of above £1 a share .
6 In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role .
7 It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates .
8 This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form .
9 This is another of Emma Johnson 's recordings for ASV which consistently conveys her own joy in the music .
10 But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else .
11 His skin secretes a great deal of mucus which both keeps the young attached and prevents them from drying out .
12 However , in the 1980s , government 's repeated sudden and confused demands for economy created a great deal of uncertainty which actually led many authorities to abandon what planning systems they had created .
13 Thus , in a thoroughly typical way , man , who is not endowed with an instinctive love of animals or care for them , achieves the ability to make a success of animal-husbandry as a form of economic life by channelling his otherwise rampant aggressiveness back against himself as a force of conscience which frequently expresses itself in pastoral cultures as a vengeful and recriminating god of the sky .
14 Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element .
15 The form which NICRA took , therefore , was determined by the coalition of forces which actually came together to create it , of which the republicans were only one element .
16 For the regulationists history , to use a delightful phrase of Aglietta 's , is ‘ innovatory ’ : there is no cyclical repetition but a succession of phases which only emerge and come to an end as a resuIt of their own characteristics and particular historical circumstances .
17 In each case there is a copper core with a plating of silver which superficially appears to be identical on the two coins .
18 In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle .
19 As the skin matures these fibres become distorted , causing loss of elasticity which often results in wrinkles & lines and should be supplemented to ensure a younger , smoother look and feel .
20 Here is a typical sentence from an RPF speech ( 18 June 1949 ) : " The new threat may not be far away ; while the horizon darkens , we see those waves of baseness which often precede the hurricane …
21 Then , eighteen months later , we had an exceptional stroke of luck which entirely transformed the position .
22 The concluding Fugue , for example , exhibits a clarity and lightness of texture which once again serves to negate the label of prolixity which for too long has been attached to Reger .
23 Their shadow images , like our own lives , are seen as merely the surface reflection of an unseen fabric of energy which majestically moves beyond time .
24 The initial vulnerability of the new born is expressed in Denis Creffield 's Anxious Baby ( 1983 ) and here the parallels with those popular images of childhood which constantly interpenetrate and interrupt our day-to-day routine are obvious .
25 A security officer from a nearby building appeared with a piece of metal which possibly had been used to attack the meter .
26 It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief .
27 Ms Robinson trained at Darlington College of Education which then specialised in nursery teaching and the town , she says , was a pilot for nursery education .
28 Just as the provision of work is not generally regarded by health and social service staff as their responsibility , so too it is easy to ignore those social aspects of life which mentally robust people organize so effectively for themselves .
29 Users of services find it easier to judge the nonclinical aspects of care which traditionally have been undervalued by providers .
30 It fails to see the complex ( and often hidden ) relational aspects of power which effectively make a nonsense of simple statements about who has power .
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