Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 2 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 3 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 4 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |
| 5 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 6 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 7 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 8 | Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . |
| 9 | If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway . |
| 10 | Subscribers to the service required only a cable line , an amplifier , a pair of speakers and a computer pad , on which to tap out the number of their choice . |
| 11 | They were still unsure about what to put on the B-side , and only made a final decision as they travelled to the recording studio on the bus . |
| 12 | For what finding out the truth means is getting true beliefs for ourselves ; and what telling it means is giving our own true beliefs to other people — often of course ( though as we shall see , by no means always ) by making true statements . |