Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Whenever the minimum number of Directors shall be one such Director shall have authority to authorise all the powers and discretions by the regulations of the Company expressed to be vested in the Directors generally and Regulation 89 of Table A shall be modified accordingly .
2 Whenever the minimum number of Directors shall be one such Director shall have authority to authorise all the powers and discretions by the regulations of the Company expressed to be vested in the Directors generally and Regulation 89 of Table A shall be modified accordingly .
3 Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
4 Logogens have thresholds : whenever the total amount of evidence exceeds this threshold level , the logogen ‘ fires ’ .
5 For many seminary-trained churchmen this was a radical change in both direction and spirit after some eighty years of official censures and directives , which too often saw a danger of heresy whenever the human part in the dialogue of revelation and the development of doctrine were explored .
6 Whenever the potential difference across a resistance is reduced to a fraction A of a previous value , the current through it is also reduced to the same fraction A and the attenuation of power is given by A 2 .
7 WHENEVER a long spell of unusual weather occurs , there are always people ready to blame it on carbon dioxide , a storm on the sun or the latest volcanic eruption .
8 Whenever a new version of a module is entered into LIFESPAN , its existence string is modified to be the title of the new version of the module .
9 They were used by professionals and keen amateurs whenever a small number of tailor-made discs were required .
10 One indication of the effect produced by Boulestin 's recipes is that whenever a second-hand copy of one of his books turns up — and that is not often — one finds it scarred with pencil marks against the recipes which have been cooked by the previous owner and often , slipped somewhere among the pages , a list of dishes noted for future trial .
11 They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions .
12 Tindle had in fact recognised in the flattened-out planks a standard trick whereby the decorative nature of the composition is reinforced .
13 Coastal marshes , the controversial targets of environmentally destructive drainage proposals throughout the 1970s and 1980s , are also proving in many places to be simply undrainable , since , after five to ten years , soil can be subject to a process whereby the chemical bonding in the clay structure breaks down .
14 Both professional organisations and the statutory bodies have worked hard to achieve a career structure which rewards so-called ‘ hands on ’ nursing , and moves away from a system whereby the standard route for promotion is removal from direct patient care into a separate hierarchical management role .
15 It is the phenomenon whereby the tripartite relationship between the language system , the encoder 's subjectivity and various contextual factors is foregrounded grammatically or lexically .
16 Often the encoder is visible ( being within the canonical situation of utterance ) and immediately audible and there takes place a kind of indexical reciprocity whereby the specific quality of a deictic expression is only given by the assignment of the extralinguistic referent .
17 Primary process thinking is driven by what he called the pleasure principle , whereby the instant gratification of infantile desires is achieved by making use of a number of irrational but personally satisfying mental tricks ( mechanisms he called condensation , displacement , substitution and symbolization ) .
18 Such antagonism is often almost unthinking , is frequently unmerited , and seems in any event a necessary device whereby the professional culture of a school sustains itself .
19 The output from a conventional laser is generated by stimulated emission , whereby the optical wave within the laser cavity is amplified by traversing the gain medium — eg the gas mixture in a CO 2 laser .
20 Indeed , a kind of inertia may be present whereby the genetic constitution of a species prevents it following the same adaptive route in relation to a common ecology as other species may show .
21 The model of multidisciplinary teamwork that has emerged in old age psychiatry potentially provides a means whereby the valuable experience of the several disciplines concerned can be applied to the widest possible range of those who need it .
22 ( Note : this is the means whereby the contractual purchaser of an unregistered property can protect his or her priority . )
23 Sometimes Chinese Walls are used ; at other times firewalls , whereby a certain type of business is conducted separate from ordinary business , within a specialized subsidiary set up specifically for this purpose .
24 In the US , this duty is embodied in the ‘ shingle theory ’ whereby a financial intermediary in a fiduciary position has a duty to have an adequately informed basis for its recommendations .
25 The most powerful case against randomness is that afforded by mass extinction and radiation events , whereby a wide variety of taxonomic groups with different modes of life , and effective biological independence , have experienced synchronised diversity reduction or increase .
26 Carbonised soils are also alkali soluble and are further forms of heat modified fats or oils which have undergone radical changes whereby a large proportion of volatiles have been burnt off and a high proportion of free carbon remains in the residues .
27 Some hospitals employ a set of policy rules for such patients whereby a particular level of precaution is nominated for each patient according to the extent of risk ( Morgan 1979 ) .
28 A technique whereby a thin skin of silver was rolled under pressure and heat to cause it to fuse onto a copper sheet base .
29 Reproduction , as the term is used by Marxist thinkers , refers to the process whereby a given form of society , or social formation , maintains itself — that is to say , is continually re-created — in that form .
30 There 's no machinery whereby an official certificate of search will be issued : you must make your own personal search .
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