Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have . |
| 2 | Okay that 's all I wanted to say about voltage gated channels then , let's erm turn our attention to so-called ligand gated channels which form rather a discrete class . |
| 3 | Two decades later , policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death , with that amount ravaged by inflation in the intervening period , have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting . |
| 4 | Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting |
| 5 | At a base in Hereford , which trains bomb disposal men in the army 's toughest course , bomb teams demonstrated modern explosives … incendiary devices , letter bombs which contain just a few ounces of Semtex , and car bombs , at one pound , just half the size of those favoured by the IRA . |
| 6 | Then the landscapes at La Rue-des Bois which are influenced by Cézanne are still related in many ways to Picasso 's more ‘ primitive ’ or ‘ Negroid ’ work ; indeed , this series of paintings begun in La Rue-des-Bois is contemporary with other canvases which represent only a continuation of his earlier work ; some of the simplest of the La Rue-des-Bois landscapes , with their almost naive interpretation of houses and trees , remind one strongly of the art of the Douanier Rousseau . |
| 7 | Whereas some areas have a per capita income level well above the EC average , there simultaneously exist areas which have just a fraction of that average . |
| 8 | The value of the statistics from poor countries which have neither a large statistical staff nor routine data collection activities is often especially questionable . |
| 9 | And as ‘ mass communication ’ changes technologically and fragments ( we are already seeing ‘ broadcasting ’ diminish and ‘ narrow casting ’ — the targeting of specialist publics grow ) , communications theorists continue to develop models which have both an analytical and a predictive function . |
| 10 | The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality . |
| 11 | A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ . |
| 12 | The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content . |
| 13 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 14 | Though I have world-wide business interests which entail quite a lot of travelling . ’ |
| 15 | These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses . |
| 16 | Actually , resistance is more likely to occur with prolonged exposure to large dosages which leave only a few ‘ resistant ’ individuals to form the nucleus of the next generation ; and it is one of the characteristics of pests that a few individuals can rapidly give rise to large populations . |
| 17 | Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff . |
| 18 | The next three chapters address special issues which affect only a proportion . |
| 19 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 20 | As far as the new rent is concerned , options fall into four categories : ( 1 ) options to renew " at a rent to be agreed " : such options are void for uncertainty unless some provision is made for determination of the rent in default of agreement ( King 's Motors ( Oxford ) Ltd v Lax [ 1969 ] 3 All ER 665 ) or some provision is made for a minimum or a maximum rent ( Corson v Rhuddlan BC [ 1990 ] 1 EGLR 255 ) ; ( 2 ) options to renew at a rent to be determined in accordance with some stated formula , without any effective machinery for working it out : if necessary the court will supply the machinery in such cases ( Brown v Gould [ 1972 ] Ch 53 ) ; ( 3 ) options with machinery but no detailed formula : in such cases the court is likely to imply a term that the rent is to be fair and reasonable between the landlord and the tenant and will supply machinery for its determination ( Sudbrooke Trading Estate Ltd v Eggleton [ 1982 ] 3 All ER 1 ) ; ( 4 ) options which provide both a formula and the machinery for working it out : the draftsman should attempt to make his draft fall into this category . |