Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This emphasis reappears in the ‘ process ’ justifications of higher education , advanced both by its providers and consumers , in terms of training the mind , learning to think , developing autonomy and so on , notions which are to some extent ‘ subject-free ’ , and which will be explored further in Chapter 4 . |
| 2 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 3 | An ongoing project is concerned with the assessment of mineral deposits such as building materials and industrial minerals for local use ( which are of little interest to international mining companies ) , and the development of techniques for beneficiating minerals from such deposits . |
| 4 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 5 | Nevertheless there are a number of DBMS , possibly the most well known being IDMS , which are of this type . |
| 6 | Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely . |
| 7 | Much of this area has been introduced by the analysis of social distance ; there are , however , other social factors which are of some importance . |
| 8 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 9 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 10 | Each quotation describes a journey in a carriage taken by the protagonists of works which are in many cases those whose titles bear their names : Emma , Madame Bovary , Clarissa , etc . |
| 11 | Selling old books , which are in many cases out of date , has raised £41.64 for the Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund . |
| 12 | It is perhaps hard to see what Picasso found to admire that was common to both tribal sculpture and the work of Cézanne , two arts which are in many ways diametrically opposed . |
| 13 | The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law . |
| 14 | The trouble with this method is that there are still more definitions required , for example , all of the signal control terms which are in another chapter . |
| 15 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 16 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 17 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 18 | It is the fear of losing love , friendship , or both that provides the means whereby the conscience warns the individual of the consequences of performing acts which are in some way hurtful to other creatures . |
| 19 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 20 | Things are put together which are in some way alike or belong together . |
| 21 | I am not a Christian because I do not credit , as I earlier put it , that nature and history could be other than closed causal nexuses or believe that there can be events which are in some way qualitatively different from other events . |
| 22 | This page lists all the DCs which are in some way related to the DC . |
| 23 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 24 | It lumps together subjects which are in some ways profoundly dissimilar , and erodes distinctions which may in themselves be significant not only conceptually but in terms of policy . |
| 25 | More recently we have bond ( that is , fixed-interest funds ) designed to maximise and maintain income levels , and cash funds which are in some ways an alternative to bank or building society deposits , though they may produce a slightly higher return . |
| 26 | ‘ It is nothing whatever to do with the cameras which are in any case not allowed to pan along the benches . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 28 | But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns . |
| 29 | Of course , Mr. Glick was fully entitled to point out to your Lordships that the vast majority of cases concerned with the recovery of tax which is not due will indeed be covered by statutory provisions regulating the right of recovery ; he also suggested that , if it should be held that section 33 has no application in the present case , steps can easily , and may well , be taken at an early opportunity to bring cases such as the present , which are in any event likely to be very rare , within its ambit . |
| 30 | No laws of behaviour are going to be formulated which are in any way dependent on the basic physical characteristics of a stimulus . |