Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 2 | Most undermining of all is any stance which goes even beyond such " cynicism " and " passes the limits of decency " — however scholarly the technical procedures may be . |
| 3 | We leave at 12.30 for Jedburgh for their ball which goes on until 6.30 am . |
| 4 | ‘ We have to be back in Duns by 8.30 am to start our riding which goes on until 2.00 . ’ |
| 5 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 6 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 7 | Those lenders who have announced their new rates are the Skipton which goes up from 13.4 per cent to 14.65 per cent ( 14.9 for higher risk lending ) from Monday and Stroud and Swindon which is putting its rate up by 1 per cent to 14.5 per cent immediately for new borrowers and from 1 November for existing loans . |
| 8 | Sir Peter speaks frequently of ‘ power sharing , ’ a notion which goes well beyond mere participation in the local consultative groups established by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 9 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 10 | The African disposal closes a chapter in the company 's history which goes back to 1925 , and cuts Bonar 's last links with the traditional clothing textile market . |
| 11 | The strong tradition of autonomy which goes back to 600 B.C. survived the guns of Louis XIV and turned a marching song composed at Strasbourg into La Marseillaise . |
| 12 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 13 | The restriction will also apply to related allowances — the additional personal allowance ( which goes mainly to single parents ) ; the widow 's bereavement allowance ( which is paid to a widow in the year of her husband 's death and in the following year ) ; and the relief for maintenance payments to a divorced or separated spouse . |
| 14 | There 's a depth here which goes far beyond pint-glass level and uncovers a songwriting strength which may become the big POD ace in the pack . |
| 15 | Frank Fahey , the Irish Minister for Sport , told RTE that the situation demanded that they broadcast Hungary v Spain , which kicks off at five o'clock — a suggestion which brought a mind-your-own-business response from their head of sport , Tim O'Connor . |
| 16 | They 're topping the bill in the Central Match Live which kicks off at ten to three . |
| 17 | Expressions for the components of the Weyl tensor 0 , 2 and 4 describing the wave and interaction components have been given by Chandrasekhar and Ferrari ( 1984 ) , though in a notation which differs slightly from that adopted here . |
| 18 | Again , Guérard gives a recipe for saddle of hare with hot beetroot which differs only in minor respects from the one Pomiane published two or three times and which I myself used often in the fifties , and eventually quoted , with acknowledgements , in French Provincial Cooking . |
| 19 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 20 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 21 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 22 | The council tax is a fair , balanced and carefully thought-out approach to local government finance which builds constructively on previous attempts at reform and takes full account of the consultations that my right hon. Friend initiated a year ago . |
| 23 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 24 | The third function , which belongs principally to ministerial and public enquiries , is advice . |
| 25 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 26 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 27 | This lush green mountainous island , with one of the best all-year-round climates in the world , is also a huge self-regulating reservoir which holds up to 200 million cubic metres of water . |
| 28 | But there is one important general point which holds regardless of these specific criticisms . |
| 29 | They range from the common but splendid gulls to the truly magnificent gannets ; shags and cormorants , which look very much alike and are fabulous divers ; razorbills , which in my view look more like penguins ; guillemots and of course the famous puffin , which lives mainly on some of the many rugged islands just off shore . |
| 30 | Instead we carried out a cloudbreak procedure using the NDB to the south of the field , which nestles in between some quite high mountains . |