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

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1 The environmental systems are effectively regarded as machines whose workings can all be discovered , described in differential equation form and whose future activities can thus be predicted in detail if their initial states are known .
2 The drug problem is mostly limited to substances which produce recognizable behavioural patterns , normally some sort of muddled state or light-headedness .
3 ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases .
4 While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are .
5 The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 .
6 This explains why Minton was so fascinated by portraits which during his time at Allen Street more or less dominated his oeuvre .
7 For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person .
8 Another point to be taken into consideration is that grants are only made to applicants whose homes are below a certain rateable value , which varies in different areas of the country , and that , when the work is completed , the home must be regarded as a suitable dwelling for occupation for at least another thirty years .
9 This Act only applied to births which took place after 22 July 1976 .
10 This technique can only be applied in bold , relatively thick outlines , and is therefore only used on items which employ reasonably simple designs .
11 The model is only used by objects which match this class , type and subtype .
12 What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO .
13 Although this may seem a rather small task it is greatly appreciated by patients whose movement around the hospital would otherwise be severely restricted .
14 We are constantly bombarded by advertising which recommends … products .
15 A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch .
16 Here is evidence of a mind abundantly stocked with reading which the author has enjoyed — effortlessly , intelligently , and selflessly enjoyed — and he wishes to communicate this enjoyment to us .
17 These mines were frequently tiny operations , perhaps run by families which might work an area only for a short time .
18 British Standard 5750 is only awarded to organisations which have co-ordinated quality control procedures in place .
19 However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft .
20 The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months .
21 Sunk into a table top model of the sand pit a simple push from below achieved in seconds what a location shoot failed to do in a day .
22 The Business is constantly engaged in negotiations which may or may not lead to a contract .
23 In Nicholas 's reign soldiers rarely had to deal with large-scale disturbances in the Russian part of the empire ( apart from the rebellion of the Novgorod military colonists in 1831 ) , but since the bureaucracy was small ( relative to the size of the empire 's population ) they were constantly engaged in business which other societies left to civilians .
24 It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out .
25 Later , it became clear that this material , despite its potency , contained only about 1 per cent of pure penicillin and that it was almost entirely composed of material which was not penicillin .
26 Erm so read through inequalities which is two point three five .
27 ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’
28 Greater weight is generally given to propositions which have stood the test of time .
29 But the technique was soon applied to objects which contain substantial amounts of lead , particular glazes and glasses rich in lead , such as enamels .
30 Heavily leaded alloys were therefore not generally used for artefacts which required high mechanical strength .
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