Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
2 | Statements made in the seventeenth century about the desirability of separating science from religion have to be read against a background in which the excesses of an enchanted universe were straining credulity . |
3 | Paul Baines has shown that this is caused by the essential or volatile oils , which the alchemists considered to be the soul of a plant . |
4 | Thus , the pressing of a large computer-linked key identified by a pattern that the chimpanzee has been trained to associate with the availability of bananas , is no more surprising than its ability to associate the presence of bananas with the shape of a banana plant on which the bananas are hidden from view . |
5 | The separated ions are converted back to atoms by passing them through lithium vapour , from which the ions easily pick up their missing electrons . |
6 | ‘ I 'm not upset , ’ says the mother , thereby throwing the mind of the child into a confusion in which the choices are either to disbelieve the mother or the evidence of the child 's own perceptions . |
7 | In this section we will describe some ways in which the choices involved in applying the B & B method may be resolved . |
8 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
9 | The benefit which the taxpayers in this case received was the placing of their children in surplus places at the college , if as a matter of discretion the college agreed to do so . |
10 | The admission of the taxpayers ' children to the school therefore did not involve the school in losing full fees which would otherwise have been paid by members of the public for the places which the taxpayers ' children occupied . |
11 | For one seasoned Whitehall figure involved in the build-up to the Falklands War , in the conflict itself and its aftermath , among the starkest lessons of the greatest trauma of the Thatcher period was the way in which the shortcomings of contemporary Cabinet government were thrown into sharp relief . |
12 | On the single test day , subjects in the critical group ( group D in Fig. 4.5(a) ) received sessions in which the cues were presented in ‘ wrong ’ context . |
13 | We can conjure them away only by observing things under conditions in which the cues to three-dimensional perception are inoperative . |
14 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
15 | The REDUCTION DIVISION is immediately followed by the second meiotic division at right angles to the first in which the chromosomes form a normal metaphase arrangement and separate their chromatids in the normal mitotic fashion . |
16 | We saw God in the children 's faces and the way in which the mums learned to trust us with their children . |
17 | It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred . |
18 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
19 | He said that a prisoner one day received a batch of letters from Amnesty members , to which the prisoners were allowed to reply . |
20 | From the heavily wired enclosure , in which the prisoners were allowed from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. , two daring escapes were made . |
21 | He helped design and build a new bandstand , an open-air bathroom , a sunbathing shelter and a stage for the plays which the prisoners took part in . |
22 | when the period ( if any ) fixed for the duration of the company by the articles expires , or the event ( if any ) occurs , on the occurrence of which the articles provide that the company is to be dissolved , and the company in general meeting has passed a resolution requiring it to be wound up voluntarily ; |
23 | on the occurrence of a specified event which the articles of association determine will bring the company to an end ; |
24 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
25 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
26 | The ensuing general election returned a House of Commons in which the reformers were in a large majority . |
27 | There was really only one ground on which the reformers could agree , in fiction as in fact : that cleanliness , above all , was the answer , and that the working class could achieve it in conditions where it was possible to make a genuine home . |
28 | These powers , which the reformers Ephialtes and Pericles tendentiously represented as ‘ usurped privileges ’ , were given to the council of 500 and to the People i.e. the Assembly and the law-courts . |
29 | This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices . |
30 | It is also best to have a fixed space in which the cameras can be set up . |