Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore let yourself be moved towards X ( a goal which may be here or there , now or then , yours or mine ) . |
| 2 | In well-winnowed sediments there is generally little or no matrix , leaving resultant pore spaces which may be partially or totally occluded ( or filled ) by cement during diagenesis ( Fig. 5.2b ) . |
| 3 | Some form of analysis ( which may be more or less explicit ) is necessarily a part of the interpretation of texts , of understanding how a poet or novelist achieves his or her effects , and consequently must figure in the production of accurate writing . |
| 4 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 5 | It occurred mainly in communities with poor diets and was eventually identified as a deficiency disease which could be promptly and completely cured by supplying adequate food . |
| 6 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 7 | We also take for granted a set of linguistic categories which will be more or less common knowledge to those who have a basic familiarity with the workings of the English language , whether in literary or non-literary contexts . |
| 8 | For any individual there will be an immense number of possible descriptions which will be more or less appropriate in different contexts . |
| 9 | The important point for present purposes , however , is that , in this and other ways , the Sexual Offences Act is not a piece of legislation which can be simply and easily categorised as ‘ permissive ’ . |
| 10 | It seems unlikely that such discrete and precise measurement is something which can be effortlessly and efficiently stored away in the teacher 's mind in the everyday bustle of school life for subsequent ‘ after-school ’ recording . |
| 11 | There is an urgent need for sensible housing which caters for the basic physical and behavioural needs of the hens , but which can be easily and economically managed . |
| 12 | The way in which some modern political leaders exploit envy for their own purposes , and the way it is built into some party programmes , positively suggest that this is a powerful current of feeling which can be readily and effectively exploited . |
| 13 | Initially , you only need five hundred records , the total cost of which can be less than £500 . |
| 14 | Their use in the industrial market will , in the future , be in competition with open cast coal which can be less than 50 per tonne . |
| 15 | The programme , which can be quickly and easily established , will allow us to start bringing down unemployment immediately . |
| 16 | Examples of calculations which can be speedily and economically performed are : Branch work loads Wastage rates Cost information in relation to salaries This function can be combined with retrieval to enable reports with numerical information and analysis such as hours of work and salary to be produced . |
| 17 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 18 | He must , if necessary ( and many children manage this ) , become bilingual , able to switch as the occasion demands between what may be virtually or actually two languages . |
| 19 | Just as , for the Aristotelians , knowledge or scientia has to do with necessities , with what must be so and can not be otherwise , so , for Locke , ‘ knowledge ’ is universal and certain . |
| 20 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 21 | More usually the allocation emerges from a pattern of related decisions including what can be reliably and economically achieved by hardware and software , what the allocated tasks look like as integrated jobs for the human operators , the skills and traditions of the available work-force , the importance of safety and reliability and so on ( Table 1.7 ) . |