Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech . |
| 2 | They may be imposed in the form of obligations of strict liability to which defences are extremely limited or in more general and voluntary concepts of negligent omissions and commissions . |
| 3 | The task is now to create a new ‘ culture of education ’ in which curriculum is better supported and understood by the community . |
| 4 | With its pictures as well as text contributed by a team of experts , it portrays a colourful decade in which hope was more rekindled than lost . |
| 5 | Paley drives his point home with beautiful and reverent descriptions of the dissected machinery of life , beginning with the human eye , a favourite example which Darwin was later to use and which will reappear throughout this book . |
| 6 | Martin Knapp ( 1993 ) has summarized the dimensions along which reform is concurrently progressing as moving from supply-led to needs-led services ; from an emphasis on institutions to a reduced emphasis on institutions ; from a public welfare model to a mixed economy ; and a movement from health service to local authority provision . |
| 7 | The crucial determinant of team effectiveness is the extent to which teams are deliberately created and managed to be the means by which the organisation functions as opposed to being purely symbolic structures . |
| 8 | Some hotels maintain a hotel bookings diary , usually a large loose-leaf ledger to which pages are easily added when necessary . |
| 9 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 10 | ‘ Provided that we suffer with him , ’ says Paul , reminding us , perhaps , that the agonising context in which Jesus is actually recorded as calling God ‘ Abba ’ is in the Garden of Gethsemane . |
| 11 | It will be a world in which individuality is better respected and social consciousness is more mature . |
| 12 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 13 | Over the door hung a motto which Morrissey was later to read and inwardly digest : ‘ EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY ’ . |
| 14 | The extreme case is , of course , a partial reinforcement schedule in which food is sometimes presented and sometimes not . |
| 15 | Her captain quite probably sighted the Falkland Islands on his way back — something about which Magellan was never to know nor care . |
| 16 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 17 | Responsibility is an aspect of autonomy to which lip-service is commonly paid but which takes a back seat in most discussions about children . |
| 18 | But this was a world from which women were largely excluded and few thought to question the relationship between the public world of politics and the private world of the family . |
| 19 | Such sections are produced by extending the 1 µm diamond finishing stage , at which material is slowly removed and thus more easily controlled . |
| 20 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 21 | It is poised between comedy and moral seriousness , and the dominant note of irony is struck in the balancing of father and son , and in the reiterated unmodified nouns Dombey and Son — appropriate references to individuals whose lives are respectively dedicated and mortgaged to the gods of family pride and commerce . |
| 22 | Dramatists or actors whose work is maliciously booed or hissed off the stage would sue their tormentors for slander rather than libel . |
| 23 | A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored . |
| 24 | There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners ! |
| 25 | There is also a ‘ low income ’ grouping of some 40 including such countries as India and Pakistan whose problems are well known and a large number of seldom publicised countries such as Benin , Mali , Chad and Togo . |
| 26 | All this is forcing restructuring and rationalisation on to the French industry , particularly in regions such as Burgundy , Beaujolais and Bordeaux whose wines are traditionally mid-market and above . |
| 27 | He thus became in a sense a monarch , though one whose powers were strictly limited and often jealously scrutinized by the provincial estates . |
| 28 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 29 | THE MODERN region called simply Borders encompasses the older shires of Berwick , Peebles , Selkirk and Roxburgh ; but in this case the ‘ new ’ name reverts to an older over-all description of a swathe of land between England and Scotland whose boundaries were repeatedly overrun and violently con-tested throughout the centuries . |
| 30 | She was wrung with pity for her aunt , whose silence was so haunted when her brothers were not there . |