Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 2(3) ( a ) of the 1957 Act provides that where a person enters in the exercise of his calling , the occupier may expect that that person will appreciate and guard against risks which are ordinarily incident to that calling ( Roles v Nathan and General Cleaning Contractors v Christmas ) . |
| 2 | Now , the suite of period rooms will adjoin galleries with mid- to late-eighteenth-century paintings , as well as a number of tapestries and decorative arts which are currently not on display . |
| 3 | There are also other possible groups of characteristics which are strikingly absent among real species — for example , there are very few large birds with short wings and short straight beaks . |
| 4 | It 's the behaviour characteristics which are most striking . |
| 5 | Why Kane ignored this and chose instead to propose a one-dimensional view of black people sharing physical characteristics is perplexing , but his next step is utterly stupefying : he suggests that blacks have psychological characteristics which are also determined by race . |
| 6 | Further there are several non-academic characteristics which are also highly significant determinants of wastage , and even when all academic and non-academic characteristics are taken into account , the degree of certainty with which potential non-graduates can be predicted is still small |
| 7 | The relationship between teachers and pupils is in many ways similar to the relationship between other professionals and their clients , but it is suggested here that in an ideal sense ( and in many cases practically too ) it does have special characteristics which are fundamentally opposed to traditional ideas of professionalism . |
| 8 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
| 9 | Despite the density and complexity of social detail in Goody 's descriptions of literacy practice , there is a peculiar lack of sociological imagination in his determination to attribute to literacy per se , characteristics which are clearly those of the social order in which it is found . |
| 10 | It is suggested that the God of the bible , called by masculine names , has however characteristics which are more ‘ feminine ’ as feminine has traditionally been conceived , and that there is imagery to be found which is female . |
| 11 | In addition , pension scheme trusts have characteristics which are materially different from those of conventional trusts . |
| 12 | That is they are places which , well before 800 AD , had characteristics which were already marked as different in function from the normal agricultural settlements of the period . |
| 13 | She was tall , dark-haired and strong-willed , characteristics which were largely repeated in all of Jack 's long-term relationships . |
| 14 | He included in his review a summary of eight characteristics which were consistently associated with successful school management and , in summing up , he pointed the way forward very clearly ( Clarkson 1988:273 ) : In schools , changes in legislation , organization and curriculum tend to attract considerable attention when they are first introduced . |
| 15 | One of the problems which arose from Friedman 's definition of the natural unemployment rate was that , apart from a list of qualifications mostly of a microeconomic nature , it appeared to possess characteristics which were usually associated with an economy in overall full employment . |
| 16 | Putting that aside , I enjoyed playing with the various contraptions which was both fun and time filling ( during boring lunch hours ! ) |
| 17 | In Japan the influential Federation of Employers ' Associations ( Nikkeiren ) draws up wage-bargaining guidelines which are often worked out by bodies where the major undertakings that will apply them are represented . |
| 18 | Here are guidelines which are usually helpful : |
| 19 | What I 've found to be the most inspiring of his work have been the songs which are ultimately almost meaningless in their simplicity . |
| 20 | The songs are simple songs which are rarely written down . |
| 21 | However , a lot of money can be earned from non-chart songs which are regularly ‘ covered ’ , recorded , performed or used in films , television or commercials . |
| 22 | New artists Youssou N'dour and Tracy Chapman contributed a vital freshness to the London evening : Chapman , admittedly , had much less impact than at the Mandela concert , mainly because she sang carbon copies of songs which are now heard anywhere and everywhere ; but N'dour 's intriguing vocal range and muezzin 's inflections came over brilliantly in this company . |
| 23 | With John in the band we began to search out songs which were really us . |
| 24 | John Gould was equally hard at work and spent hours tracking down Joyce 's more obscure lyrics and tunes which we could try out in place of any songs which were too difficult for my limited vocal range . |
| 25 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 26 | It reflects a despising of ‘ primitive ’ peoples which is still all too familiar to us . |
| 27 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 28 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 29 | That would include animals which are wild coming from other countries . |
| 30 | Sociobiologists are liable to find themselves in confrontation with the cultural and social anthropologists because they are specially concerned with interactions ( especially mating behaviour ) between individual animals which are closely related biologically . |