Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The transfer function of the low-pass prototype is given by equation ( 12.12 ) and substituting expression ( 12.43 ) for s generates the modified transfer function On the other hand , direct analysis of the network of figure ( 12.4 ) yields or which is of course of the same form .
2 And this has been interpreted as meaning measures which are excessively costly , burdensome , unusual , or which are of no real benefit to the patient .
3 Events which are severely threatful only for a few days , or which are of a relatively mild or even positive nature , are unlikely to be associated with depression ( see chapter 4 ) .
4 Literature is fiction not because it somehow refuses to acknowledge ‘ reality ’ , but because it is not a priori certain that language functions according to principles which are those , or which are like those , of the phenomenal world .
5 Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living .
6 ‘ It is questionable whether concepts applicable to offences involving inanimate objects , such as arson under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 , should necessarily apply where what is in issue is a man 's consciousness of the fact that the woman with whom he is having sexual intercourse does not consent to it . ’
7 A fourth bad approach is to claim that the law can not stop research or whatever is under discussion , so why try ?
8 We have all had these emotions but when they reach such a pitch that our suppression of them can not cope , we explode , turning against whoever or whatever is in our way in an attempt to destroy it .
9 Traditionally everything is carried in baskets on the head or shoulders , and you can often see these large wicker baskets full of cabbage , potatoes , oranges , apples or whatever is in season waiting at the side of the road for transport to the market in Funchal .
10 He is there to listen to the evidence , to present the evidence to the jury , the jury then , say , whether the man in the dock or woman in the dock or whatever 's in the dock , is guilty or not guilty .
11 I think all the work that we did indicates that there the productivity is one issue , that unless you 're doing the two point eight or whatever 's in the budget , you know , we 're not gon na get near it .
12 In London he had joined gangs who had thrown rotten tomatoes , eggs or whatever was at hand into Salvation Army meetings .
13 Whoever , or whatever was in the hold seemed unwilling or unable — they had battened down the hatch once more — to do battle in the open .
14 Like all taxes they consist of two elements : the tax base , or what is to be taxed ; and the tax rate , or the amount to be levied on the tax base .
15 It is not stated who is to determine whether the conditions have been observed , or what is to be the consequence of subsequent non-observance .
16 Is it what is on the glass , or what is on the glass plus what is seen through the glass , or just the glass itself ?
17 There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise .
18 Who or what is behind the phenomena ?
19 Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market .
20 ‘ It has been claimed that their parents did not know the full extent of the dealings or what was on the films . ’
21 Just to quickly assess that we were n't going forward to erm a horrible situation where er one of us or somebody else is going to be injured , so there would have been a very , very quick check to see who or what was in the room .
22 The same implications attach to the playing of games or the membership of clubs and so on , although what is of even more interest are the ‘ unwritten ’ rules which underwrite the more formal , quasi-legal , ones .
23 Although what 's on the bed is nice mattresses .
24 The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law .
25 It is clear that what is at issue here is more than geographical inequalities in the pattern of employment and unemployment , even in their broader social implications .
26 Indeed it is only , or at least primarily , in the development of material techniques of the fourth and fifth types that what is at first not much more than a relatively open specialization and diversity of attention becomes a formative and even determining set of divisive social relations .
27 I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself , not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations .
28 If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people .
29 There are philosophical problems about this kind of approach to paintings : if the artist paints so that what is on the canvas looks to him just like what is in front of him , then the astigmatism or other defects ought to cancel out and his picture look all right to us .
30 ‘ Correctly pricing the gas at its fully competitive worth ensures that what is after all a scarce and valuable natural resource is rightly conserved by end users .
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