Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 2 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 3 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 4 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 5 | The sharpness of the turn led to a bitter faction fight , at the end of which most of the recent recruits had either left or been ejected on the toe of Healy 's boot . |
| 6 | The proximal tentacle pores are large armed with long rounded scales of which those on the lateral plate are the larger ; they number as follows : . |
| 7 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 8 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 9 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 10 | This perception was heightened by the zeal with which some of the five CMHTs set out to protect the purity of their developmental work and their freedom from routine casework — and by the decision of all the CMHTs to begin their work by undertaking an exhaustive survey of all identifiable people with learning difficulties ( and carers ) to establish their needs and preferences . |
| 11 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 12 | The Pearson agreement also made a key concession to the less populous provinces by providing for a reform of the federal Senate into an elected chamber within which each of the 10 provinces would have eight representatives . |
| 13 | The Pearson agreement also made a key concession to the less populous provinces by providing for a reform of the federal Senate into an elected chamber within which each of the 10 provinces would have eight representatives . |
| 14 | During the period 1950–87 the local government structure , within which many of the social services are based , came under review . |
| 15 | Catholicism as an ideology and the Church as an institution were central to the strength of Spanish conservatism both before and during the Republic , thanks to the power not only of school , pulpit and press , but also of a large and comprehensive network of church-sponsored social , professional and farmers ' organizations within which much of the Catholic population was enmeshed . |
| 16 | In this case the duration of time spent in training constituted a not insubstantial part of the total duration of the contracts upon which most of the temporary workers were initially recruited ( six months ) . |
| 17 | A more plausible scenario emerging from Gershuny 's analysis is , in my view , one in which many of the final commodities and services will actually be produced by individuals or smallish groups , using the mass-produced standardised home-based capital goods , for sale in the market place . |
| 18 | The somewhat cavalier way in which many of the internal streets were treated is illustrated by one which was found east of Bleachfield Street . |
| 19 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 20 | Architect Robert Luna 's remodelling of the second floor possesses a few postmodern touches here and there , such as angular cutouts in gallery walls , but it is otherwise a straightforward design in which many of the massive spaces remain daunting for viewer and smaller artworks alike . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that the experience of repeated , if relatively short , spells of unemployment is as great a problem as the experience of single , long spells , and that precisely because temporary work is the way in which many of the unemployed re-enter work , it might increase the chance of unemployment being repeated ( OECD , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | This is a particular risk at fast food outlets and cafés , and with pub lunches , in which many of the prepared hot dishes can be oversalted . |
| 23 | Froissart 's account of the way in which many of the leading French nobility , by going forward at the battle of Crécy , in effect chose the likelihood of death to a dishonourable flight , suggests to the modern reader a group more intent upon self-immolation than upon the serious business of achieving victory through order and discipline . |
| 24 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 25 | The multi-event day was preceded by a meeting in which each of the five London branches gave a presentation — no holds were barred . |
| 26 | This is a dictionary , in which each of the 64 ( 4 x 4 x 4 ) possible triplets of DNA ( or RNA ) symbols is translated into one of the 20 amino acids or a ‘ stop reading ’ symbol . |
| 27 | When he was only nineteen , a copy of the Gospel of St John that he had prepared , in which each of the twenty-one chapters was in a different language , was shown to the King . |
| 28 | In fig 6 we can see a fairly typical rock'n'roll idea in which each of the double stops is approached from a semi-tone below . |
| 29 | When all the nasties had been driven extinct , there was no way in which any of the nice strategies could be distinguished from Tit for Tat or from each other , because they all , being nice , simply played COOPERATE against each other . |
| 30 | The serial , and later the book edition in which some of the original text had been restored , provoked a furious reaction . |