Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ .
2 For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life .
3 Overall the project aims to contribute to the understanding of structural solutions devised by firms to manage the uncertainties and risks which they face in purchasing and using new technologies .
4 No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other .
5 This requirement reflects the policy of risk spreading so that the Law Commission First Report on Exemption Clauses in Contracts No 24 , para 82 ( 1969 ) justify distinguishing between private and business purchasers on the basis of the : … ability of the business purchaser to take into account the likelihood of defects , to reduce their incidence by arrangements for re-examination and servicing ( which may be allowed for in the price paid ) and to make suitable dispositions , by insurance and in his costings , to cover the risks which he has to bear .
6 Secondly , the purchaser will wish to protect itself in the sale agreement against any risks which it was unable to identify during the negotiations but which are discovered after completion and to ensure it is compensated against these by the vendor .
7 She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards .
8 Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ .
9 ‘ All Europeans who deal with the Masai inevitably , after a short period , appreciate that the Masai have certain characteristics which we , the British , deeply applaud ’ , wrote the District Commissioner in charge of Narok in 1955 .
10 I have contended that the success , and for that matter failure , of blacks in sport has nothing to do with so-called physical characteristics which they are all meant to share , nor with psychological predispositions which they clearly do not have , and certainly not with physical inheritances which are said to have been somehow transmitted genetically from their slave forefathers .
11 Say the distance between two species is the number of characteristics which they do n't have in common .
12 It will trace how the city operated the different Housing Acts , how it developed its housing management policy , and how its schemes came to have the distinctive social characteristics which they possess .
13 These are his charm , his instrumental attitude towards his own goodness , and his fundamental opacity of mind — all characteristics which he shared with Gandhi to some degree .
14 Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model .
15 There are , however , some generalizations and characteristics which you should understand before choosing a career in advertising .
16 If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised .
17 If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised .
18 Four clearly identifiable characteristics which I have found in all the new churches — worship , fellowship , evangelism and training — are discussed in the chapters that follow .
19 The way in which ritual develops — or rather is developed — and the characteristics which it assumes , reflect the ordering and preoccupations peculiar to a society .
20 Investing in quality home improvements is not difficult , but there are guidelines which you should take care to follow .
21 Here are some guidelines which you should follow in order to improve your comfort during work with visual display units :
22 Although he did criticise its guidelines which he said were badly drafted .
23 Although he did criticise its guidelines which he said were badly drafted .
24 ‘ Warrender display a few guidelines which I always follow , ’ said .
25 When the line-up was finalised with Charman in the spring of 1985 , they already had a set of six songs which they rehearsed repeatedly .
26 He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement .
27 Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way .
28 On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people .
29 ‘ On my tour I 'm going to sing My Funny Valentine and Some Enchanted Evening — songs which I would never have tackled before .
30 It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up .
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