Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shift in the labour pattern significantly reduced the tensions between the European and non-European and largely unskilled Jewish elements in Israel which during the 1960s was becoming a serious social and political issue since the latter grew faster demographically than the former . |
| 2 | On a part of Blakerigg at the foot of the gill from Blea Tarn there was a place with a fine echo , and Green imagined ‘ Music amid such wilds ! ah ! how charming , plaintive solos on the clarinet or flute would have a fine effect amongst such rocks , which during the intervals of rest , would echo back the melancholy notes in soft reverberations , and produce in the mind a union of the most pleasing sensations . ‘ |
| 3 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 4 | There are several footpaths around the village , which during the summer months provide a rich variety of flora and fauna . |
| 5 | More Tamils than Sinhalese lived in Nuvara Eliya district , which during the Kandyan Kingdom was inhabited almost entirely by Sinhalese . |
| 6 | Their dependent variable constituted 105 large companies ( drawn from the 500 largest firms in the US ) which during the period 1968–72 were involved in trade litigation for committing , or having being accused of committing , one or more of the following : price discrimination , tying arrangements , refusal to deal , exclusive dealing , franchise violation , price fixing , foreclosure of entry , reciprocity , allocation of markets , monopoly , conspiracy , and illegal mergers and acquisitions . |
| 7 | Graffiti around his house sneer ‘ Ustasha ’ , the name of the puppet government which during the last war collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 8 | The two sisters had converted the stables attached to their home , Miller 's House in Lewes , into a studio which during the war had become a kind of arts centre , where exhibitions , lectures and concerts were held and which received support and encouragement from eminent names . |
| 9 | Muriel Belcher had previously run a club called the Music Box in Leicester Square and which during the war had become a theatrical rendezvous . |
| 10 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 11 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 12 | What these characters are engaged in , however , is a competition for the attention of the camera , for which during the course of the film they posture and scheme . |
| 13 | The Ras of Tigre , who had greatly facilitated Napier 's advance on Magdala , was suitably rewarded with firearms and cannon , with which during the troubled years that followed Theodore 's death he was able to overcome his rivals . |
| 14 | The set of changes by which during the last 700 years or so , for example : /ei : / became /i : / in words like see /i : / became/ai : / in words like time / / became / / in words like bone |
| 15 | This will be the case where an offer is made by one side which during the visit is accepted by the other . |
| 16 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 17 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 18 | The trained bands , which were under the control of the Tory-Anglican lieutenancy , and which during the Exclusion Crisis had been efficient in suppressing the activities of Whig and Nonconformist crowds , refused to act against the crowds who gathered to prevent people from attending the mass , believing that since the professed purpose was " only pulling down Popery " , they could not " in conscience hinder " . |
| 19 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 20 | 2.3 " Adjoining Property " means any neighbouring or adjoining land or premises ( excluding the remainder of the Centre ) in which the Landlord or a Group Company has a freehold or leasehold interest or in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired a freehold or leasehold interest There is no objection to this provided that the existence of any adjoining property does not have an adverse effect on the tenant 's contribution towards service charges or other costs referred to in the lease and the tenant should therefore be vigilant in this regard when amending the lease . |
| 21 | 3.5 The expression " the Centre " where the context so admits includes any additional and adjoining land and buildings in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired the freehold or leasehold interest and which shall have been so constructed or acquired to form [ an integral ] part of the Centre |
| 22 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 23 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 24 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |
| 25 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 26 | This link between subjectivity and subjection , which for the ( political ) post/modernist has to be disclosed before it can be disarticulated , is , by comparison , both assumed and manifestly endorsed in the Renaissance . |
| 27 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
| 28 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 29 | After the State funeral , plans were made for the Coronation , which for the very first time was to be televised . |
| 30 | Neither origins nor ends predetermine meaning , which for the reader may rest as much in the gaps between the stories as in the stories themselves , in their continuity and succession as in their uniqueness and completion . |