Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible .
2 Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face .
3 YOU CAN see the ninety feet high Victorian church spire of St Michael ( extreme right ) a mile away on a small hill , below which lies the unassuming village of Sutton .
4 Each ganglion gives off two pairs of principal nerves , one of which supplies the general musculature of the segment and the other innervates the muscles of the legs .
5 The SP1 runs AIX/6000 Version 3.2.3 on top of which sits the Parallel Operating Environment .
6 Its ‘ classical ’ location is within large-scale bureaucratic organisations , the hierarchical structure of which enables the upward movement of individuals through an ordered succession of jobs .
7 All of which prompts the obvious question : how fundamental were these changes ?
8 Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind .
9 There is a cherry-wood bathroom , the splendid Pink Bedroom , and the rooms where the Nethercotts ' three sons sleep and play — one of which sports the only Velux in the house .
10 CD2 , LFA-3 and BCM1 form a subgroup of the IgSF ; the extracellular regions of these molecules are predicted to consist of two IgSF domains , the first of which lacks the canonical disulphide bond .
11 The IT General Systems Sector involved in downsizing Motorola 's internal computing operations — a part of which services the cellular business — itself contributes $3.5bn in revenues to Motorola Inc .
12 I will mention two , neither of which affects the main story .
13 And the largely monodisciplinary pattern of higher education reproduces itself in the writing about higher education , most of which adopts the particular perspective of one discipline , be it philosophy , history , sociology , economics or psychology .
14 And here is William , medieval scholar , sitting on a park bench , a plaque on the back of which informs the enquiring public that it is dedicated to the memory of a Mrs C. M. Elliott who so loved …
15 To the right of the central logo are four DIN-plug inputs , the first of which accepts the FC-60 footswitch , with the next three relating to MIDI control : In , Thru and Out .
16 The retina consists of the inner lining at the back of the eye and is a delicate membrane , constructed of ten different layers , one of which contains the two types of light-sensitive cells , the rods and cones .
17 As proof of his sanctity , the latter describes various miracles after the saint 's death , one of which concerns the Danish leaders who were among his murderers .
18 Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern .
19 Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company .
20 Galtung goes on to suggest that social science needs a much richer conception of what constitutes the social unit , bearing in mind that these may well need to change from society to society .
21 At the heart of the current debate , therefore , is the question of what determines the different sensitivities of IP 3 Rs .
22 Separated by 100 years , totally different in their explanations of what propels the American economy , these two stories symbolize the choice that Americans will face in the 1990s ; each celebrates a fundamentally different version of American entrepreneurship .
23 It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system .
24 For our purposes , it will be enough to have a general idea of what distinguishes the Caribbean Creoles from the varieties of British English to which second-generation Caribbeans in London have been exposed .
25 The super-Alfvénic solar wind ( SW ) forms a bow shock ( BS ) , behind which lies the shocked plasma of the magnetosheath ( MS ) .
26 As a former UN Secretary-General wrote : ‘ The establishment of human rights provides the foundation upon which rests the political structure of human freedom ; the achievement of human freedom generates the will as well as the capacity for economic and social progress ; the attainment of economic and social progress provides the basis for true peace . ’
27 As a living body in which dwells the Divine Spirit , it is fashioned and shaped by the Divine Power .
28 Ahead now , and then right , is Corso Europa in which stands the interesting Casa Litta — not to be confused with the even more interesting Palazzo Litta .
29 Three of its leading stars make up a triangle , inside which lies the red supergiant .
30 Giving support means taking an active and genuine interest in whatever concerns the young reader .
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