Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 2 | But that does not mean that the particular institutional arrangements of a particular society ( namely that which provides the normal context for the use of modern English ) can serve as a paradigm for all others . |
| 3 | This can be established ad hominem to anyone who makes such an identification , for it is always done by people who attach importance to the claim that what has the natural property in question is good . |
| 4 | And they believe that what makes the current situation precarious is the continuing uncertainty over the outlook for sterling . |
| 5 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
| 6 | ‘ But understand , from my side , that I 'd like to see her once a fortnight , if it 's just for an hour , and that whatever holidays the other bairns have , she 's got to have the same . |
| 7 | In addition , public enterprises also lend themselves to tasks that have more to do with political legitimation than with the needs of the economic system , and which increase the contradictory pressures on them . |
| 8 | For now , we should look at more of the essential components of life on Earth : the energy that comes from the Sun , and which keeps the whole system rolling ; and the atmosphere itself , which protects us from too much of that radiation , and provides several of life 's essential ingredients . |
| 9 | On the one hand there was the assembly or Ecclesia which every citizen was entitled to attend , and which took the final decisions about policy . |
| 10 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 11 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 12 | ‘ Appropriate ’ technology might usefully be defined as an idea which is of benefit to the people of developing countries , and which meets the following criteria : |
| 13 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 14 | Polymeric phosphatidylcholines have been prepared in which the polar head group forms the interface , and which mimic the interfacial characteristics of the lipid of these natural cell and lipoprotein surfaces . |
| 15 | This irony prompts the questions which guided the research and which form the central problem addressed by this book : since those who are subject to regulation have good economic reason not to comply , how is compliance secured , given the frailty of the criminal sanction and its virtual disuse ? |
| 16 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 17 | From the Eleventh Dynasty , in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Two Ways , the Underworld has become a realm with many danger which must be conquered and which express the natural fear of death . |
| 18 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 19 | His greatest reward was the gift of a mortuary temple , the only one granted to a non-royal person , which was built near to that of the king and which raised the deceased Amenhotep to divine status , placing him amongst the cults of kings . |
| 20 | They are accustomed to presentations that are professionally , even slickly , performed , and which make the average class lesson seem amateur , especially in the use of communication aids such as graphics , film clips and animated cartoons . |
| 21 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 22 | The fossil record shows that each new generation of dinosaur evinced marked evolutionary changes in body types which set them apart , and which fitted the ecological changes occurring coterminously around them . |
| 23 | And which produces the minimum amount of manipulation and that was that the second one was n't it ? |
| 24 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 25 | It was a balanced system in which the best use was made of a poor environment and which safeguarded the long-term interest of the communities which occupied it , at the level of which the land was capable . |
| 26 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 27 | It is difficult to determine what proportion of these ships had wire rigging and which used the improved hemp but in any case it is clear that the West was largely won with better rope . |
| 28 | Mr Burtt has asked my advice on payment of the enclosed invoice for £690 for an order raised by Mrs Gregory which did not go through the agreed procedures , and which exceeds the total amount available for all staff . |
| 29 | Classicism grew out of the Enlightenment , the eighteenth-century philosophical movement which stressed the importance of human reason and which undertook the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions . |
| 30 | The chief executive or clerk of the authority will from time to time report to the council and its committees on all legislation which is new and which affects the local authority . |