Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case why not jettison this religion which has been so harmful to women ? l6 |
| 2 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 3 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 4 | However , in about 25% of animals which have been heavily infected , there is a flare-up of clinical signs during this phase which is frequently fatal . |
| 5 | ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ . |
| 6 | As an example of microprocessor architecture , we briefly discuss the Intel 8080 , a well-known microprocessor which has been widely copied . |
| 7 | Dash will present the winner of The Crystal Maze with a car which has been specially designed for the busy Dash customer . |
| 8 | It was a black and white photograph which had been partially tinted with pastel colours so that though the young man 's face was paper-white , his eyes were sky-blue and his medal ribbons bright as a rainbow . |
| 9 | The construction of those stations became the responsibility of various industrial consortia , an aspect of the British programme which has been much criticised . |
| 10 | As previously noted , banks can increase the total volume of spending in the economy by their credit-creating capacity while non-bank financial institutions can merely borrow and lend funds which have been already created within the banking system . |
| 11 | Set it and you can forget about the meal until the buzzer lets you know it 's ready and to keep all those pots and pans there 's even a large storage compartment which has been specially contoured with smooth rounded corners to make cleaning easier . |
| 12 | The United States which had been supremely the country of the railway at the beginning of the twentieth century had just as dramatically and wholeheartedly become the country of the motor car , the Greyhound bus , and the aeroplane . |
| 13 | Any probes which have been previously mapped provide a means for ordering and orienting these contigs into their correct positions on the genome , for if two contigs contain neighbouring mapped probes then it is likely the contigs should be adjacent , even if there are no hybridisations linking them . |
| 14 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 15 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 16 | The Iolanthe set provides what is called a ‘ bonus track ’ ( actually five tracks ) of orchestral dance-numbers which have been recently identified as coming from Gilbert and Sullivan 's very first collaboration , Thespis ( Gaiety Theatre , 1871 ) , of which no complete score survives . |
| 17 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 18 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 19 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 20 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 21 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 22 | We therefore intend a package of measures to achieve this , including delegation of financial decisions and appointment of teaching staff to local controllers ( known as ‘ parents ’ — see item 4 above ) , and central Government support for individual schools which have been particularly successful at promoting inequality . |
| 23 | It seems very likely that ILEA schools which have been most heavily engaged in these developments will have a distinct advantage if national schemes of assessment are broadly in line with the TGAT report , though many teachers are likely to have reservations about nationally prescribed tests . |
| 24 | The two situations are not logically comparable , since in the physical world , each nuclide which disintegrates is permanently lost from the sample , whereas in the case of documents , the original collection does not decrease when an element is sampled by citation . |
| 25 | Consultations with ministers , the provision of information to administrators , direct communication with diplomats and naval officers , all fell within the ambit of less public means of attempted influence and can be most clearly illustrated from the record of the African Institution which has been somewhat overlooked by earlier writers . |
| 26 | Woods belonging to subjects which had been unlawfully withdrawn from the forest — such as the Abbess of Romsey 's woods of Ashton Steeple and Edington in Wiltshire , and a wood belonging to Stratford Mortimer in Berkshire — were once again reclaimed into it . |
| 27 | Again valuable lessons can be learned from those subjects which have been under National Curriculum orders longer than history . |
| 28 | In addition to this ‘ before-and-after intervention ’ approach , there are other experimental designs which have been specially developed for teachers and therapists working in therapeutic settings . |
| 29 | Indeed we have ‘ given the rod ’ to nations which have been better acquainted than ourselves with tyranny and inhumanity . |
| 30 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |