Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [am/are] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With actors of the calibre of Gerard Kelly ( as Spanky ) , Andy Gray , Alexander Morton and Barbara Rafferty that was never likely , but what was less expected was the ability of the actors in the parts of the younger Slab Boys to rise to heights , to produce the casual , offhand , muscular performances which are the ideal foil for the more reflective playing of their older selves . |
| 2 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 3 | It is cases like Byrd , Utley and Toon which are the chief cause for concern . |
| 4 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 5 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |
| 6 | Zeki 's results would never have been obtained if he had continued to study V4 cells using spectrally pure light sources that are the tradition in visual system physiology , rather than coloured objects which are the normal source of our colour perception . |
| 7 | Thus section 25 provides defences which are the same as those in sections 24 and 25 of the 1968 Act ( above ) . |
| 8 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 9 | Mr , main argument of course er was er wholly spacious er with that proposed in the main motion would not stop any activities which are the proper aim of the agriculture act . |
| 10 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 11 | They spoke of ‘ an increasing displacement of the traditional curriculum in favour of new and artificial subjects ’ ; and they concluded that instead of such ‘ infantilizing ’ nonsense , ‘ the difficult subjects of the traditional curriculum are … the thing that is required if a child is to obtain either the competence necessary for a successful adult life , or the wider understanding and enriched experience which are the greatest benefits of education ’ . |
| 12 | This relates to the two aggregates which are the primary concern of accruals accounting and about which cash accounting has nothing to say , namely , capital and income . |
| 13 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 14 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 15 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 16 | A more typical reaction in the Age of Enlightenment , however , was that of the topographer Richard Gough , who described Nicholas Ferrar as a ‘ useless enthusiast ’ who by the austerity of his life ‘ rendered the body and mind less fit for the social duties which are the great objects of our existence ’ . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what are the total number of residents of Northern Ireland who have been questioned under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and ( a ) subsequently charged and ( b ) convicted or had an exclusion order placed upon them since 1974 . |
| 18 | If one were asked the question what are the four chief characteristics of the Suffolk horse ? the answer would certainly be — colour , quality , compactness and hardy constitution . ’ |
| 19 | We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy . |
| 20 | I have bought half a dozen fish which are the same as Indian Glassfish . |
| 21 | Do n't overdo the detail , as what is to be achieved is an impression of the whole scene and any over-emphasis on detail can detract from the foreground colour variations and reflections which are the main feature of the picture . |
| 22 | During their period of farm isolation the goats intermittently exhibited large abscesses which are the obvious clinical symptoms of lumpy goat disease , Caseous lymphadenitis . |
| 23 | Their place is taken by geodesics which are the straightest lines that can be drawn between a pair of points in a curved space and as such have no component of curvature in that space . |
| 24 | The eyes … sometimes looking bewildered , even desperate , but I think it was the horrible bright lights which are the worst part of it all . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that editors will bother to rewrite the relatively small stories which are the bread-and-butter material of most media relations programmes . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are the latest figures for aid and other financial support for the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 27 | erm how we could fit into that , make them more aware of , of , perhaps which bearings are the better , price ways which are the better bearings to go for |
| 28 | The management techniques which are the direct descendants of Taylorism and scientific management — work study , organization and methods studies , the industrial health movement , the various components of personnel management , and so on — represent very clearly a perspective not only on the individual member of an organization , but on the organization as a social entity . |
| 29 | Where a firm deals with or for a customer it must take all reasonable steps to deal on the terms which are the best available for the customer in the circumstances . |
| 30 | It is the similarities of technique and of the central flowers and guilloche decoration between these mosaics which are the final indicators of affinity . |