Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As returning stolen goods is different from aid , will my right hon. Friend ensure that , when the Foreign Secretary makes a statement on the return of the gold stolen by the Labour Government with the assistance of the then leaders of the Liberal party and is replaced in the Bank of England to the order of the Governments of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , that statement is not confused with an agreement on giving aid , which is a wholly different matter ? |
| 2 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 3 | To the binocular-owner there is little else of interest in Draco , which is a decidedly barren group . |
| 4 | Well my favourite shrub is , er must be the Charles Austin which is a rather nice one , it 's a cream well scented modern English shrub rose and it grows to about , well up here anyway in Scotland where I am it grows something like erm four to six feet and another one well , erm Aloha , it 's a delicious scented pink and a strong growing rose er fairly upright but erm quite a good one and again it grows to be about five to six feet with us . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very evident that since the publication of the paperback the campaign against it has subsided , to such an extent that even one of my most hardline critics , the British Muslim Dr Kalim Siddiqui , was recently quoted in the Guardian as saying it is time to forgive and forget , which is a rather extraordinary volte-face from someone who was until recently asking for my head on a plate . |
| 6 | We also run a summer school called Women into Physics , which is a rather strange title , but the idea basically is to persuade , if not encourage , young girls who have just taken their O levels that physics is a subject which could be for them — it 's not unladylike about being a scientist and , in particular , being a physicist . |
| 7 | We were called " military observers " which is a rather grand title . |
| 8 | So the anxious horse 's body is continually prepared for physical danger , and so for flight — which is a rather inappropriate reaction for ordinary everyday care and riding of the horse . |
| 9 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 10 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 11 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 12 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 13 | For all its great altitude , the view from the top of the Col du Tourmalet is much less open and memorable than many , blocked as it is to the south by a row of peaks and overpowered immediately to the north by the bulk of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , which is a most assertive mountain . |
| 14 | Erm the complete absence of any emphasis er in the deliverances on erm child abuse er child sexual abuse which is a most horrible sin . |
| 15 | After the ceremony there was a reception at the bride 's home Malmesbury House , which is a most attractive house and so close to the Cathedral that guests could walk there easily . |
| 16 | ‘ She held out Lucy 's hand , which is a slightly different matter . ’ |
| 17 | This geometric model ( a geometrically constructed system which seems to have the same properties as the Lorenz equations though the connection depends on several global properties of the flow which have not yet been proved ) has an attracting set , for a range of parameter values , which is a strange attractor , but which is a slightly different strange attractor at every parameter value in the range ( see below ) . |
| 18 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 19 | She 's now lost two husbands ( car crash , tumour ) and one live-in lover ( tram accident ) , which is a suspiciously high number by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 20 | Cos otherwise , I can tell you what the alternative is , the alternative is the men in grey suits which is a equally arbitrary process and it can as actually concentrate power in the hands of a very small number of people o sometimes perhaps unrepresentative of the parliamentary party . |
| 21 | Subthemes began to emerge , relating to the unelaborated ‘ we ’ , which is a notoriously ambiguous word in political discourse ( Seidel , 1975 , 1978 ; and see particularly Seidel , 1986 , for an analysis of the ambivalent ways that the libertarian right uses the concepts of ‘ nation ’ and ‘ race ’ ) . |
| 22 | At the core of which is a seemingly insoluble difficulty : the 45 singles market , on which all pop shows past have been based , is in steady , irreversible decline . |
| 23 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The English game is a lot more open than the Sydney competition which is a little stereotyped with defence being the main part of the game . ’ |
| 25 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 26 | There are a couple of blemishes on the maple which look like black drips from where the pickup cavities have been painted , which is a little careless , but luckily these are not too noticeable sitting as they do underneath the player 's right arm during use . |
| 27 | The photograph shows a typical IDC type connector , this is a SCSI connector ( 50 way ) which is a little larger than the IDE type ( 40 way ) but the fitting instructions are identical . |
| 28 | This particular lie is engineered to create the impression of a finely-honed athlete who has temporarily lost his edge , which is a little less than the complete truth . |
| 29 | Digital Pixel has introduced its System 2000 which is a fully integrated digital quantitative imaging system based on high performance CCD technology . |
| 30 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |