Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chair , wheelchair or commode onto which the patient is transferring is placed on one side of the carer , sideways on to the bed . |
| 2 | It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands . |
| 3 | They will make judgements as to the quality of the work , basing their opinion upon what is actually published , and the author 's reputation may be made or broken by what the critics say . |
| 4 | When the communicative support system with which they have grown up fails to function in the usual way , the effect , arguably , will be to make the children regress or behave in some other aberrant manner — for instance , to stop asking questions or to agree with whatever the adult suggests . |
| 5 | The ‘ stope ’ , or place from which the rock is dug , becomes , at the end of the operation , just a cavity in the rockface , at which point it becomes a ‘ gunnis ’ . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice any liability or remedy to which a person guilty of an offence thereunder may be subject in civil proceedings . |
| 7 | In the present case , the immediate proceeding in which the order was made was not the cause or matter to which the section refers . |
| 8 | However , a good deal of discretion is left in the hands of the Area Director to determine the merits of the application , having considered ‘ … all questions of fact or law arising out of the action , cause or matter to which the application relates and the circumstances in which it was made . ’ |
| 9 | In open savannah , gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts from which the daily dispersal occurs . |
| 10 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 11 | The dorsal and lateral margins of the occipital foramen are commonly bordered by a narrow rim or postocciput with which the neck membrane is directly continuous . |
| 12 | In the absence of an express obligation , the landlord will have no duty to keep in repair any pipe or drain through which the tenant discharges soil or water , even if the pipe or drain is retained in the possession of the landlord ( Westminster ( Duke ) v Guild [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 144 ) . |
| 13 | This may cause difficulty where the audience were annoyed or distressed by what the defendant was doing . |
| 14 | A word grammatically related to a word that follows it , especially the noun or pronoun to which a relative pronoun is related . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Serious litigation or disputes in which the target is involved and which could have a serious effect on the business should be considered . |
| 16 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 17 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 18 | The initial check , Gilmont says , is designed to determine if the bill is coherent ; if in fact , it belongs to the bank , and if it shows an amount that corresponds to what the bank expected to be billed . |
| 19 | So I destroyed that place to which the |
| 20 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes an abundance of information ( stimuli ) into meaningful patterns . |
| 21 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes the mass of information which impinges on the self into meaningful patterns . |
| 22 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 23 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 24 | Opposing forces in the dispute over the bill claimed victory , accused each other of capitulation and disagreed over what the compromise meant . |
| 25 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 26 | The notice given should be reasonable , and the date , time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified , with a reference to the relevant section of the Act , viz. 5.15 . |
| 27 | When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy . |
| 28 | They suggested that pupil results should be presented as an attainment profile and that for each subject there should be a very small number of ‘ profile components ’ which reflected the variety of knowledge skills and understanding to which a study of the subject gave rise . |
| 29 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 30 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |