Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | More Tamils than Sinhalese lived in Nuvara Eliya district , which during the Kandyan Kingdom was inhabited almost entirely by Sinhalese . |
| 2 | The arts will have a higher profile in the fourth Conservative term , with David Mellor heading a much enlarged department ( which for the first time is allocated a place in the Cabinet ) , flanked by one junior Minister , Robert Key . |
| 3 | During a five-hour address on the opening day , which for the first time was not broadcast live , Castro painted a bleak picture of an economy critically dependent on trade with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The USSR had acquired substantial assets in the Third World , which for the first time were threatened by a combination of internal rebellion and external pressure . |
| 5 | Which of the following list are not current BR stations ? |
| 6 | The extension will also have the effect that the offences of theft and criminal deception will overlap and that conduct which under the present law is larceny by a trick and that which is obtaining by false pretences will be the same offence of criminal deception . |
| 7 | Consequently , the starting point for the restoration of the equilibrium must be its disruption , the function of which in the present case is to restore the balance , but at the same time on an even more deeply contradictory basis . |
| 8 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |
| 9 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 10 | Extracting this sort of consolation prize from the Bourbon candidate was the first stage of Britain 's advance into the Mediterranean , which in the nineteenth century was followed by a series of acquisitions which led to control of the route to the east . |
| 11 | In contrast to Röling 's approach , which in the above quotation is essentially similar to that of the policy-maker , those international lawyers who have stressed the illegality of nuclear weapons ( for example , Falk et al . , |
| 12 | At the same time , Nietzsche 's stance , though extremely favourable , is still critical , and his enthusiasm is qualified by a certain self-conscious humour : witness the blandly ironic use of " wholesome " ( ein Gesunder ) and the self-deflating " etc. " , which in the German original is preceded by an extravagantly formulated double rhyme : die ethische Luft , der faustische Duft , Kreuz , Tod und Gruft etc . |
| 13 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 14 | From the time of that first evolutionary change , and onwards through the whole of the Second Period , that is , from the start of life to the dawn of civilisation , millions of evolutionary events took place which from the very beginning were moving towards the creation of an ever more sensitive , complex and capable physical being , and this being , ultimately to become man , was always at the head of the process no matter what had gone before . |
| 15 | Second , such support as there is , via the National Endowment for the Arts ( currently it is funded at $130m , which to the federal government is peanuts ) , is the more visible for being infinitesimal and therefore vulnerable . |
| 16 | This blood-sucking abomasal parasite , which to the naked eye is indistinguishable from H. contortus , is common in buffalo and cattle in certain areas of Asia . |
| 17 | The Duke of Windsor in his chart had Neptune — which on the one hand is a spiritual , artistic and creative but on the other hand is chaos , erosion and sacrifice . |
| 18 | As usual it was full , her handbag plonked on top of bags of fruit which on the outward journey were reserved ‘ for my grandmother in the country ’ , but which , her assignment completed without incident , they would eat on the way home . |
| 19 | Buyers of commercial vehicles or heavy trucks , for instance , may prefer to buy products that they know will " feel right " to drivers , and which at the same time are straightforward for their maintenance crews to service . |
| 20 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 21 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 22 | And if it was not , what in the wide world was it ? |