Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They are intended to inform students what to study , teachers what to teach , and examiners what to examine . |
| 2 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 3 | Many of the ancient water-clocks were instruments of considerable complexity , particularly as they were designed to indicate hours which varied throughout the year . |
| 4 | It was perhaps even worse when public servants were or felt constrained to file affidavits which demonstrated a political purpose . |
| 5 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 6 | The physical process of tendon repair is now well documented and efforts are being made to find drugs which speed up or modify the repair process . |
| 7 | Unstable family units , deviant behaviour from family members and poverty , bad housing and other socio-economic problems were all seen to create pressures which made child abuse — particularly physical abuse — more likely . |
| 8 | The POU domain proteins are a family of structurally related transacting factors which have been isolated from a variety of organisms ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 9 | A straight over-the-shoulder pull is ineffective , for the barbel is built to resist forces which act directly , head-on , against him . |
| 10 | Thus , rules restricting disclosure made under s 48(2) ( g ) and ( h ) might be said to authorise rules which operate only in a regulatory context . |
| 11 | Instead , the government has decided to produce figures which measure low income against average income . |
| 12 | A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology . |
| 13 | Worm casts have been shown to contain enzymes which continue to break down organic matter even after they have been excreted . |
| 14 | ( 22 ) Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as … , and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stow 's Uncle Tom 's Cabin . |
| 15 | Information about syntax can be used to select words which form grammatically allowable strings ; or to reject strings which are grammatically unacceptable . |
| 16 | The power invested in Spenser 's literary representations helped establish patterns which became culturally entrenched even to the point of resisting changing historical categories . |
| 17 | Similar techniques are already being used to deter coyotes which kill sheep , and could prove a very useful management technique ( Science , vol 220 , p 212 ) . |
| 18 | Applied Research , on the other hand , is thought to produce results which have an immediate application to industry , to technology or to medicine . |
| 19 | One particular advantage of models such as these is that they can be used to produce multipliers which show the effects of changes in eg the population of a region on the employment levels in that region . |
| 20 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 21 | Country folk are well known to observe signs which indicate the weather . |
| 22 | Compelled to re-enact rituals which appear only as stupid , trapped within the cyclic world of ‘ the love of created beings ’ , Eliot 's characters lead ‘ preord ’ lives of deep horror . |
| 23 | Where subjects are asked to perform tasks which do involve comprehension , consistent evidence for the interaction of syntactic processing with other kinds of processing has emerged . |
| 24 | Now Germany and Spain have resumed publishing figures which include all countries . |
| 25 | Many spells may be cast to create creatures which attack the enemy . |
| 26 | The concepts were developed to conceptualize problems which arose in therapeutic work — problems such as the resistance of patients to being well at all , and not merely to particular interpretations offered to them by Freud in his role as analyst . |
| 27 | Recently the government has started to implement policies which extend this principle to many of the services carried out by local authorities and by health authorities . |
| 28 | NOTE : When planning a garden , care must be taken to exclude plants which have poisonous leaves or berries . |
| 29 | Although this proposal has at present not the slightest chance of being implemented , nevertheless as the rate of inflation and growing unemployment prove to be intractable problems so people will be forced to seek solutions which work in practice even if that means constraining both government and its officials . |
| 30 | The scope for those activities is wide-ranging and students will be encouraged to undertake activities which provide opportunities for the use and development of interpersonal skills . |