Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property . |
| 2 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 3 | The Thatcher group had several characteristics which made them differ from their predecessors . |
| 4 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 5 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 6 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 7 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 8 | Most crucially it means identifying the population which is at ‘ risk ’ of being exposed to the noxious or infectious agent via proximity or because of certain characteristics which make them more vulnerable . |
| 9 | Verdi is never mistaken for Wagner , nor Puccini for Tchaikovsky , because their melodies have personal distinguishing characteristics which make them instantly identifiable . |
| 10 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 11 | For Marxists , too , as an area becomes developed it can acquire characteristics which make it less attractive to capitalist production . |
| 12 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 13 | But whichever approach one adopts , market coordination has characteristics which differentiate it from hierarchies and networks . |
| 14 | Autistic children are difficult to understand due to their complete individuality ; unlike Down 's people , they do not have any common physical characteristics which place them apart from other people ; they are often very attractive looking children . |
| 15 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 16 | These three groups share common characteristics which mark them out from the rest of the population , even from many of those who are on low income . |
| 17 | Fortunately , however , most of them are closely related to others , and the separate characteristics which concern us are relatively few in number . |
| 18 | It 's a remarkable musical full of tuneful songs which give it a romantic and charmingly French flavour . |
| 19 | Milk and food can also be contaminated by infection in the animals which provide them and preventing the transmission of such disease ( e.g. brucellosis ) involves strict control over the source and supply of animal food products for human consumption . |
| 20 | None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters . |
| 21 | This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club . |
| 22 | Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below . |
| 23 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 24 | Spiders have eight hairy legs which enable them to move easily over obstacles and rough territory . |
| 25 | ‘ We always started seriously , usually discussing Louisa and perhaps her problems with her legs which stopped her doing her old-time dancing . ’ |
| 26 | She connects psychological variables like parental contact and control , extended family and peer care and contact , the girls ' autonomy and responsibility , their hostility and suspicion towards the world , and their early sense of themselves as adult women rather than children , to specific social , political and economic oppressions which affect them . |
| 27 | This included an increased degree of autonomy for Quebec ( and any of the other provinces which sought it ) through the proposed transfer of numerous powers and areas of responsibility from the federal to the provincial sphere of government . |
| 28 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 29 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |
| 30 | Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities . |