Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It speaks of authoritative directives being based on or reflecting reasons which apply to their subjects in any case . |
| 2 | He will frequently have to take samples or make visits which involve prolonged absences from his vehicle ; besides , the terrain in some districts is such that reception of the radio signal is weak or non-existent . |
| 3 | They serve as prisms or refracting lenses which multiply meaning . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the ultimate defence of literature against the culturalist or contextualizing pressures which want to turn it into something else is usually along aesthetic lines . |
| 5 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 6 | It is important to distinguish between allies and enemies : large numbers of aphids , for example , are often accompanied by ladybird or lacewing larvae which feed voraciously on them and are liable to be killed by many insecticides . |
| 7 | Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids . |
| 8 | It aimed to fine or penalise authorities which did not actually cut their spending . |
| 9 | Others who do not feel loved frequently become very insular , or create situations which cause others to feel sorry for them , or even guilty . |
| 10 | As of April 4 estate agents in the province will have to tell house hunters the facts about properties — or face punishments which include unlimited fines and being banned by the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 11 | Melodic lines may vary from synthesised or sampled sounds which reproduce classical instruments , to more obviously electronic tones . |
| 12 | Different attitudes confront older people ; they are seen to be too slow , too set in their work practices , or possessing skills which have become or will become redundant . |
| 13 | My own feeling is that we at least need to start where the children feel most comfortable , and then to introduce elements which are better described as mythic rather than fantastic ; that is , to dramatise or create stories which contain imagery and symbolism which are likely to excite the children , and yet which they can relate to their own lives . |
| 14 | Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied , and not surprisingly , for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums . |
| 15 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 16 | Under general treaty law and the law on State responsibility , States can amend or terminate treaties which provide rights for individuals . |
| 17 | Much of its business was concerned with continuing statutes that would otherwise lapse , repealing some that had become irksome , or modifying others which had revealed weaknesses in operation . |
| 18 | There are also times when we need to ensure that we understand what is being said , and this can be done by asking simple questions or making comments which help elucidate or develop what the counsellee is saying , such as , ‘ So you think that … ’ , or ‘ You mean that … ‘ , or even ‘ I 'm not sure that I follow what you mean … |
| 19 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 20 | Never again will I make you unhappy , cause you anxiety , or do things which cause you upset and sleepless nights … ’ |
| 21 | All objects , such as trees , stones , and books , whether in their tangible or visible aspects , are such that their ‘ esse [ their mode of existence ] is percipi [ to be perceived ] , nor is it possible they should have any existence , out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 22 | But it hardly supports the conclusion which , without further ado , Berkeley draws from it : that it is not possible that sensible things ‘ should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 23 | Are there alternatives to the modifying or repackaging strategies which aim to reduce deviance ? |
| 24 | Already an established provider of training to school leavers and adults , mainly through the Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) , the focus at Enterprise Training centres is increasingly for trainees to take NVQs or join courses which help them back to work . |
| 25 | The results are in line with the simple prediction that moving signs which have temporal ( i.e. locational ) salience will be more easily perceived in the RVF . |
| 26 | We regret the consequences to the communities of Darlington and Spennymoor of the industry 's terminal decline but then we have never thought that having factories which make a product which kills people was ever anything to be proud of . |
| 27 | Both in Britain and in America , especially marked during the later 1950s and early 1960s , the voices of dissent began to rise — against McCarthyism , against the Bomb , against any established authority that tells individuals what to do and how to do it — voices that said , and continue to say , ‘ They sha n't push us around any longer . ’ |
| 28 | It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals . |
| 29 | Their Lordships accept the ‘ Salisbury doctrine ’ , produced by Lord Salisbury during the era of the post-war Attlee administration , which asserts that the Upper House should not stop the second reading of a bill that embodies proposals which appeared in the election manifesto of the governing party . |
| 30 | It works in two stages — one pill which detaches the foetus from the womb lining , followed by prostaglandin , a hormone that triggers contractions which expel the foetus . |