Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Kerkut arranged it such that whenever the leg touched the liquid an electrical circuit was completed and the cockroach was shocked , ; when it withdrew its leg from the liquid the circuit was broken and the shock ceased .
32 The central idea to transmit is that any programme is a formal device through which rewards can be provided when the problem does not occur in circumstances where sometimes it does , and through which disincentives are provided whenever the problem does occur .
33 The WRVS aim to run their tea bar whenever the court is sitting , usually three times a week , but provided the rota is working well ( ‘ which it does ’ , Mrs. Rooney said ) the organiser needs only to call in once a week .
34 whenever the court is of the opinion that in the circumstances it would be just and equitable to dissolve the partnership .
35 An injunction may be issued whenever the court ‘ finds it just and convenient to do so ’ .
36 Whenever the doorkeeper opened up to let in an applicant who had left his card in time a great throng would press forward , hurling their plans through the door like assegais .
37 The concern in the present section is with purely reactive circuits and it is worth noting that in dual versions the frequencies at which the reactance becomes zero or infinite is the same , one circuit being resonant ( ) whenever the other is antiresonant ( ) and vice versa .
38 Whenever the word translated " atonement " was used it meant paying a price — a ransom price .
39 Bob Morgan , why is it that whenever the word gipsy comes up there 's so much antagonism and interest ?
40 Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents …
41 Certainly whenever the researchers arrived to arrange their initial series of interviews , several potential interviewees met their request for an interview with queries as to whether we were going to look at ‘ how the incomers/Shetlanders are mixing with Shetlander/incomers ’ .
42 Whenever the courts enforce a promise on the ground that another has relied upon it , a transfer of wealth occurs .
43 Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant .
44 Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant .
45 An old British saying is : ‘ Whenever the cat of the house is black , the lasses of lovers will have no lack . ’
46 It was for the man who looked after the sewage outfall ; he had to be here to open the sluice whenever the tide was right .
47 Of course , large parts of the brain are involved whenever the beaver builds a dam but , when the G mutation affects this particular part of the brain 's wiring diagram , the change has a specific effect on the behaviour .
48 Your intruder alarm must be set whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance .
49 whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance or
50 whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance or
51 This identifier was used whenever the zone to the left or to the right of the line segment being digitized was sea .
52 A list of phonetic symbols for vowels and consonants is given in the Introduction and can be called up whenever the user needs to refer to it .
53 In the first year of the Civil War , whenever the Nationalists had entered a town or a village in Republican territory , they had simply ransacked official buildings and premises used by left wing-parties and trade unions .
54 What he could and did do , throughout the Algiers year , was to strengthen the CFLN 's position inside and outside France so that , whenever the operation began , the CFLN would be in the best position to preempt Allied attempts to marginalize it .
55 It simply does not follow that because the legal forms have been observed , the results are more reliable ; any more than it follows that whenever the forms are breached , the results are unreliable .
56 Whenever the election comes , the hon. Gentleman will find that the electorate has also noticed that .
57 Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ .
58 Now whenever the snake appears she screeches
59 Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn .
60 Even before what appears to have been an acute phase of illness in 1756 , Smart showed many characteristic signs : impulsiveness , reckless spending , drunkenness and — leading eventually to his confinement — his disinhibited behaviour of praying in public and on inappropriate occasions whenever the spirit moved him .
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