Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bladder which is frequently emptied does not expand to its full capacity and needs gentle stretching to bring this about . |
| 2 | It is the intention to include damage due to explosion and collapse which is often specifically included in the wording used by other companies . |
| 3 | After the war , he decided to emigrate to Britain rather than return to his homeland which was under Soviet rule . |
| 4 | 5 Be wary of topics such as politics , sex , race and religion which are very effective in getting a discussion going , as people often have strong feelings on them or find them interesting , but there is the danger of hostility being generated and the discussion getting out of control . |
| 5 | Any definition of ‘ god ’ and its associated religion which is too vulnerable to criticism from scientific and other disciplined sources would not survive . |
| 6 | Of course it would be possible to have a religion which was largely abstract , which consisted of philosophical formulations and moral maxims . |
| 7 | If the load is maintained , the crack therefore accelerates rapidly and soon reaches its theoretical calculated speed which is generally about 38 per cent of the speed of sound in the material . |
| 8 | This gives an impression of speed which is so important in this interpretation of Czerny 's finger exercises for the piano , and is quite alien to the soft rise and fall of the Sylphides ' jetés danced to Chopin 's romantic music in a woodland glade . |
| 9 | If they are accurate , the new Foxbats can not only evade our missiles , they can attain the very top level of the stratosphere , and maintain a speed which is only marginally sub-orbital . |
| 10 | The cases in which there was no constitution , or lesser formality of organization , merge into types of association which are more characteristic of the twentieth century ( though some of the earlier forms have continued ) . |
| 11 | The movement of the pin into the solid of the block creates an undeclared ( and unwanted ) association which is similarly reported . |
| 12 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 13 | That out of the assembly will come a nucleus of Rhodesians , black and white , as dedicated to God 's ways as the Communists are dedicated to theirs ; that lives will be changed fundamentally — and that such a miracle will inspire the fresh thinking which is desperately needed . |
| 14 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 15 | A year after the tragic loss of Ken Barrington , Keith Fletcher was dumped , the ‘ first sign of the irresolute thinking which was so to bedevil the decade ’ . |
| 16 | Here the discourse proceeds through a repeated grammatical structure ( to X and not to Y the/for Z ) into which different words are slotted , creating a rhythm which is finally broken in the last phrase in a way which may seem to imitate the sense of relief and reward the prayer concerns . |
| 17 | The onward flow of music depends on the fulfilment of expectancy , on the recall of a note shape or rhythm which is already familiar . |
| 18 | A horse which needs stretching down will benefit from a Chambon whereas a horse which is rather ignorant of the bit will only have himself to argue with in side-reins . |
| 19 | He 's far from the best rider around but he sticks to it , or to the horse which is more important I suppose ! |
| 20 | Moreover , this ravaging of that part of the publicly owned stock which is most desirable and most in demand is not being made up by new building . |
| 21 | Not only was it rare to visit clients ' premises , but the ‘ audited ’ accounts produced usually contained an amount for stock which was simply plucked out of the air by the client . |
| 22 | In the normal way a fraternity held an annual social function , after its festival mass , to collect the stock which was forthwith paid over to the churchwardens , less any sum retained for guild purposes . |
| 23 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 24 | Originally it was used to summon Farnborough children to school , when the latter was housed in the earliest part of the house during the nineteenth century : the low bit on the west side which is now the kitchen . |
| 25 | With the internationalists McLaren and Robertson also outstanding , Hearts were much better balanced than a Falkirk side which is now paying the penalty for a lack of urgency in defence . |
| 26 | Erm brighter on the side which is furthest away from us , and the fact that he 's er , he or she , is eating a , you know a piece of fruit or something is quite appealing . |
| 27 | One ninety-minute cassette gives you forty-five minutes on each side which is enough for most people . |
| 28 | This pattern has also had a stitch laddered down at each side which was then picked up , but as before , sometimes the dropped stitches can be left if they do not show . |
| 29 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 30 | Er yes my Lord , er in conjunction with the card er we have a warrant card which is individually issued to er a respective officer with his name , his rank er and also a photograph . |