Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights , progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating .
2 The same inhibitions which kept clergy clean-shaven seem to have applied to clerical uniform .
3 As Barro points out , the only quantity rule which does not carry with it the implication that at times buyers and sellers will , at the price set , trade a quantity of the good they consider in advance to be sub-optimal is a rule which sets output equal to the value it would take in the absence of any unanticipated disturbances ; that is , y n .
4 This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were .
5 The student has a stock of colour-coded labels which carry computer key words ( such as ‘ GOTO ’ ) or numbers or letters of the alphabet .
6 The element R which made recombination possible has an evens chance of emerging attached to a perfect message .
7 Sun Microsystems Inc 's Colorado-based master distributor Access Graphics Inc is picking up Qume Corp 's $700 QX15 ASCII/ANSI terminal which supports Sun graphical windows .
8 It is this accepted common practice which makes communication possible , not the existence of mental items — ideas or thoughts — to be transported from one mind to another .
9 Indeed it is an important priority to generate new data which make ethnicity visible , because on the basis of existing evidence it is difficult to distinguish whether the different patterns of support which we can see in minority ethnic kin groups are likely to persist as patterns of settlement stabilize .
10 The range is a mixture of pre and post shave formulations which keep skin soft and smooth , and includes After Shake Soother for sensitive skin .
11 The small town cafe which finds Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald 's producing crippling competition in its own area , is just as much a victim of these trends as ICI , Shell or Unilever .
12 There is a third type of choreographer who produces ballets which give audiences great pleasure through the sheer variety of their virtuoso designs .
13 The products specified in the report include a low-cost video board which gives users single-step video capture and compression capabilities in a 320 by 240 pixel window , and an Exchangeable Card Architecture communications board — due in June — which includes the enhanced Indeo compression technology .
14 An underside view of the extended hand of a bat showing the webbed fingers which make flight possible .
15 Between the forms which accommodate features diagnostic of an individual workshop and those which show only a structural similarity to other mosaics in the region , a picture of the developments of patterns in the wider context of south-western England emerges .
16 What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research .
17 I inherited one kitchen which had lemon yellow units with aluminium knobs , lemon yellow walls , a false flagstone vinyl floor and speckly plastic laminate worktops .
18 The woman inspired her with an admiration which made closeness difficult .
19 US scientists have discovered a smell which drives punters wild .
20 Further down the street was Young 's Timber Yard having a narrow entrance under the bedrooms of adjoining houses which made deliveries difficult .
21 Children often play with them as representational toys ( despite their different scales which make comparisons difficult ) .
22 In the light of these considerations their Lordships can not help viewing a statutory provision which criminalises statements likely to undermine public confidence in the conduct of public affairs with the utmost suspicion .
23 Similarly , the duty upon LEAs can lead to provision which serves ends useful to the individual within his work , such as foreign language classes .
24 A roughly similar pattern , especially as regards the rapid growth in business in the years before 1914 , can be seen everywhere : the unit of the Russian foreign ministry which duplicated papers concerned with relations with the European states , for example , trebled its output in 1893 – 1906 .
25 At the moment , departments can approach agencies directly and ask them to pitch , or select a shortlist from the COI 's own direct agency roster which includes Brann Direct and Maxima .
26 The Sun reminded its readers that ‘ it was his flag which helped cover topless streaker Erika Rowe [ sic ] after she ran on to the turf at Twickenham during a rugby international in 1982 ’ .
27 The general practitioner can only act as a , necessary , mediator between layman and specialist by cultivating that trust to a degree which makes paternalism unavoidable .
28 Concealed miniature radios and microphones which use wires other than telephone have been other bugging expedients .
29 Injection of the mother with a mitotic arrestant many hours before embryo recovery will increase the proportion containing mitotic divisions but long exposure also leads to excessive chromosome contraction which makes analysis difficult .
30 For a simple evaluation of intestinal bacteria we previously reported reliable results in animals with a PABA-UDCA test involving oral administration of PABA-UDCA which contains p -aminobenzoic acid ( PABA ) as a tracer group .
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