Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take seriously the possibility of institutional dominance posed by the existence of their own and other welfare organisations … they would be concerned to consider options for change which challenge the vested interest , or the market position of their organisation itself — for instance by acting as subordinate partner to other agencies in a cooperative venture . |
| 2 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 3 | Through his desire to impart a feeling of an " organic whole " Unwin upset the separation between houses which characterised the Victorian suburb . |
| 4 | However , we are well represented on other Bar Council Committees , and the YBC provides a forum for matters which concern the Young Bar . |
| 5 | Overall , they are not nearly so trendy as articles about architecture which let the fortuitous effect of individual photographs lead the text into exaggeration and bombast . |
| 6 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 7 | Shakespeare 's standing , as any other writer 's , was imagined to be determined by an expression of values which transcended the historical moment . |
| 8 | They are locked into a broader pattern of support which spans the three generations of parents and children , rather than existing on their own terms . |
| 9 | Over 200 companies have signed the ICC 's Business Charter for Sustainable Development , which urges industry to commit itself to the development of products which require the minimum amount of energy and natural resources to produce , and which can be recycled or disposed of safely after use . |
| 10 | Before that he had worked as GM in Brazil , exploring a portfolio of acreage which included the great tracts of land in which BP was an interest holder in the middle Amazon basin as well as onshore blocks in the Parana Basin and offshore in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin . |
| 11 | This sets out a number of projects which reflect the common aims and interests of our two organisations , in support of which CCW provides an important , annually-renewable grant . |
| 12 | Together with the other forests of the Empire it forms a continuous block of woodland which dominates the whole central area of the Empire . |
| 13 | However , the existence of intangible advantages does not justify the continuation of policies which ignore the basic rights of women who want to play a full and active part in society . |
| 14 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 15 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 16 | He inherited a tradition of teaching which stressed the essential unknowability of God by human faculties . |
| 17 | The emergence of a set of strategies which encompass the whole institution can be developed at the same time as local links and local issues are given some priority . |
| 18 | Jewish charity , in particular the Jewish Board of Guardians which relieved the destitute , and Jewish schools , such as the Jewish Free School of East London , were designed to mollify criticism and anti-semitism by providing for Jewish needs without recourse to the funds of the host community . |
| 19 | The bird starts by flying persistently in front of its chosen site and repeatedly dabbing the rock with its tongue , laying down a curved line of saliva which marks the lower edge of the nest-to-be . |
| 20 | Little or no account is taken of such corporate entities as manufacturers ' associations , the City of London and the educational system ; or of the whole range of institutions which sustain the British social system . |
| 21 | More and more people are getting the standard pop music motifs off their chests in favour of designs which highlight the off-beat and individual . |
| 22 | However it is current , and its coverage — fiction , biography , travel , hobbies , popular science , etc. — is of subjects which interest the public library 's clientele , and which are given little critical attention by other sources . |
| 23 | They assert that ‘ ideas alone , in the absence of action which violates the Criminal Law , do not constitute a crime . ’ |
| 24 | So when unemployment approached one million in early ‘ 72 , following fiscal deflation in earlier budgets , the government went for reflation by means of substantial tax cuts — a course of action which had the full support of most economic commentators including the ‘ Times ’ . |
| 25 | On the other hand " correct " forms of action which approach the impossible may acquire aesthetic merit in the process . |
| 26 | Instead of defining the state of mind which represents the required concept of voluntary consent , choice theories follow the normal pattern of common law reasoning and resort to an ‘ extrovert ’ approach . |
| 27 | The report claimed that the Code of Guidance which accompanied the Registered Homes Act of 1984 was not being applied , partly because of lack of resources and partly because of the restricted power of local authorities . |
| 28 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 29 | Margery Kempe finds the actual humanity of Christ 's life and death a pattern of living which transfigures the ordinary demands of daily life with a sense of the holy — an emotional engagement with the humanity of Christ which she shares with the " affective piety " of her age . |
| 30 | Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same , however . |