Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [Wh det] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 2 | In the vegetable cell these cellulose molecules form very long , more or less crystalline , threads or fibrillae which are about 150–200 Å thick , say about 30 to 40 molecules wide . |
| 3 | For example , he states that the theory of representations ‘ excludes the idea of thought or perception which is without anchor ’ ( 1983 : 36 ) . |
| 4 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |
| 5 | USER_INPUT/ — is an input parameter specifying the details of the package or product which is to be created : |
| 6 | The thought of asking one of the Royal family for money to breed owls seemed a bit out of order ; however , Suzy explained that the scheme was designed to help young people just like myself set up projects or businesses which are of benefit to the local community , as well as themselves . |
| 7 | Where a treaty provides for obligations or rights which are to be performed or enjoyed by individuals , juristic persons or groups of individuals , such obligations or rights are applicable to the individuals … : |
| 8 | These include many noted above , as well as the role of opinion leaders and charismatic figures , the type of attitude or belief which is in question , the profile of the audience targeted , the number of times the message is repeated and the relationship between the sender and the receiver . |
| 9 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 10 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |
| 11 | Where loss has been caused by an act or omission which is of a comparatively mechanical character , rather than involving an exercise of business discretion , the courts have , in contrast , shown themselves to be more willing to impose liability . |
| 12 | It is not magic or superstition which is at the heart of the sacrilege so much as morality . ’ |
| 13 | A common law or possessory lien is the right to retain goods , money , or documents which are in one 's possession until payment of some claim due from the owner . |
| 14 | Essentially these records exist only as a set of ‘ access and retrieval instructions ’ that might have been executed against a given dataset or information-base which was in ‘ state ’ x at time y . |
| 15 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 16 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 17 | Britten combines this with a highly resourceful method of linking and transforming themes , so that ideas which are at first simply pictorial take on a psychological meaning in the story , or vice versa . |
| 18 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 19 | It is not those coins and notes which are to be handed over . |
| 20 | How do we attempt to deduce some general guidelines from his history and teaching which are of relevance for us today ? |
| 21 | When I spoke with Mike Spring , creator and master planner of this new and important Hyperion series about a year ago , he was full of enthusiasm about the music and artists which were to be recruited to perform it . |
| 22 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 23 | Federalism in its German form betrays a highly teleological view of politics , and its theorists arrogate to themselves assumptions and imperatives which are at best matters for the Church , but can never be pronounced on by politicians . |
| 24 | ‘ If [ the searcher ] is a lawyer , private publishers supply annually updated texts which are almost up to the minute when purchased and databases which are at least adequate . |
| 25 | It will later this week reiterate its opposition to the break-up of the two-tier structure of regions and districts which are to be replaced with single-tier councils . |
| 26 | Here we may have a glimpse of the future shape of organisation and management theory and practice which is worth on-going consideration in relation to schools . |
| 27 | A campaign has been launched to save a collection of birds and animals which is under threat because a council wants to save money . |
| 28 | It excludes brief cohabitation , and marriage which is of an entirely arranged nature ; these will be dealt with briefly later in this chapter . |
| 29 | It is hard to see anything like the controlling hand of a single dominant ideology in all this , given the complex shifts of power and positioning which are in play in these constructions . |
| 30 | If you read Tolstoy 's novels you will find that the great figures , i i in his War and Peace which is about erm the Napoleonic invasion of erm Russia , has anybody read War and Peace ? |