Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 2.3 shows good examples of the psychophysiology associated with relaxed wakefulness and five internationally recognized stages of sleep — four slow wave sleep stages , numbered 1 to 4 , and stage REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep which is associated with dreaming . |
| 2 | A general waiver has been granted by the Council to permit the establishment of staff bonus schemes which make payments to employees calculated by reference to the gross fee income or net profits of the firm ; which are open to all employees subject only to a short ( maximum three years ) qualifying period ; where the basis of distribution ( length of service , proportionate to salary etc ) is disclosed to the staff , but where the actual level of profits or income need not be so disclosed ; and where no distribution is permitted which is related to the introduction of business . |
| 3 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 4 | The slide away that many people accept as being inevitable is based on a number of assumptions we are conditioned to accept which are reinforced by the comments of others . |
| 5 | No costs may be claimed which were incurred before the relevant date set out in the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 6 | The distinction has to be noted ( because traditionally thinking in criminal law seems to regard it as important ) between a request by the patient that treatment be discontinued which is complied with and a request by the patient that someone stabs him to death which is complied with . |
| 7 | In temperate countries an acute syndrome of severe diarrhoea and death in young ponies in the spring has been reported which is associated with the simultaneous mass emergence of trichoneme L4 from the intestinal mucosa and submucosa . |
| 8 | In many Endopterygote insects , more especially those whose eggs are deposited within plant tissue or in other concealed situations , the distal abdominal segments become attenuated and often telescoped to form a retractile tube or oviscapt which is used as an ovipositor . |
| 9 | Cashiers ' keys which identify the cashier or shift which is printed on the folios ( bills ) vouchers and audit journals . |
| 10 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |
| 11 | The peripheral control processor ( PCP ) of the CDC 6600 computer ( see 6.5 ) has what is referred to as a " replace add " instruction , where the result of adding the contents of the accumulator and a store location replaces both the accumulator and the store location . |
| 12 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 13 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 14 | Greek , like many other Indo-European languages , has what is known as ‘ grammatical gender ’ . |
| 15 | Weighing just 7g it has what is claimed to be a new yoke-less magnetic system with a special allow core for the coil assembly ; this is claimed to eliminate irregularities in the flux . |
| 16 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 17 | The explanation will also include what is related to this and is absolutely fundamental to scientific method , which is the experimental procedure of testing and establishing connections by the " varying of circumstances " , which is essentially the discovery of what is relevant and what is irrelevant to a given event . |
| 18 | But these are official figures which do not include what are referred to as the hidden homeless — those sharing households and those living rough . |
| 19 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 20 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 21 | This provided what was perceived as a very secure milieu : as Chaplin ( 1978 , p. 82 ) describes it : ‘ You were known , you were named , you had your place , you could make your mark in life ’ . |
| 22 | And how do you hit the base of a thumb without dislocating what 's meant to be grasping a ski-pole for the next week ? |
| 23 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 24 | The latest CBI distributive trades survey , published today , underlined what is expected to be confirmed in tomorrow 's retail sales figures for January , namely that there was quite a good bounce-back from the unexpected fall in December . |
| 25 | The priority for the O'Neill government was development in the area east of the Bann ; the proposed new town of Craigavon underlined what was seen in Derry as neglect of the north-west . |
| 26 | However , one encounters what is known as the closure problem , a consequence of the non-linearity of the equation . |
| 27 | Fundamental is the need to relate whatever is studied to the child 's own experience , and also to awaken motivation and stimulate enquiry . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's my boy — I 've a right to know what 's become of him ! ’ |
| 29 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 30 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |