Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music you need one bar of music line with those blobs which are the note heads in exactly the right places . |
| 2 | Second , it provides a choice of storage media for BLOBs which may have advantages both of cost and convenience . |
| 3 | Obvious examples are pollinating creatures , insects , birds and bats , insectivorous creatures to keep the plant-destroying insects under control and creatures such as beavers in swamps which really are essential factors in the landscape . |
| 4 | He viewed all parliaments as swamps which suck down good and bad alike : " nobody can achieve anything in parliament or through parliament . " |
| 5 | Also HEP schemes generally involve dams which may be useful as flood barriers and for irrigation schemes , particularly in developing countries . |
| 6 | A massive tribal gathering at Altamira helped to stop a $500 million loan to build hydroelectric dams which would have caused untold environmental damage . |
| 7 | I always wondered if they were his demons or familiars which could scuttle along the walls to listen for treason and search out conspiracy . |
| 8 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 9 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
| 10 | You see the sufferings which air raids have caused our people . |
| 11 | I can not remember a single one where the risks which gave rise to the accident could not have been measured and prevented with effective safety training , management commitment and — above all - sufficient funds . |
| 12 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 13 | Fraud is one of the risks which result from the spread of credit . |
| 14 | The ACA Form of Building Agreement was published in 1982 and , unlike most JCT contracts , requires the contractor to take all risks which are outside the control of the client or the architect . |
| 15 | Even so , there are some risks which the average horse owner should not be prepared to take . |
| 16 | The mistake is often made of leaving too much to the insurance broker — not giving him sufficiently clear instructions and then , most importantly , not checking with him that the policy taken out does cover the risks which need to be insured against . |
| 17 | This Part of this Act shall have effect with a view to securing the observance of proper hours … of work by persons engaged in the carriage of passengers or goods by road and thereby protecting the public against the risks which arise in cases where the drivers of motor vehicles are suffering from fatigue . |
| 18 | For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life . |
| 19 | Jef Smith , the organisation 's general manager , said older people should be allowed to take risks which can ‘ add a sparkle to their lives ’ . |
| 20 | When you are assessing a patient who is being admitted to your ward , make a list of potential risks which may affect this particular individual . |
| 21 | Another alternative which is attracting increasing attention is the development of legal expenses insurances against such risks which has been welcomed and sponsored by The Law Society ( White , Robin , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | For , as George Gilder has written , ‘ All of us are dependent for our livelihood and progress not on a vast and predictable machine , but on the creativity and courage of the particular men who accept the risks which generate our riches . ’ |
| 23 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 24 | Prudence does not involve avoiding all risk , but it does involve avoiding taking risks which , if they eventuate , may have irreparable consequences or which are disproportionate to the benefits which could accrue from taking them . |
| 25 | A corollary of this is that the risks which people face of being victims of serious crime are remarkably small . |
| 26 | The anti-collective , individualistic morality of the pursuit of money in the enterprise culture has led to a belief by some speculators that they can take risks which are criminal . |
| 27 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 28 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 29 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 30 | Buyer Risks which include insolvency of the buyer ; failure to pay within six months of the due date ; and refusal to accept goods which comply with the contract . |