Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What with the addition of new capabilities to spreadsheets , and the advent of products which push back the frontiers of the electronic spreadsheet concept , it 's becoming a little difficult to draw a line between spreadsheet products and more elaborate financial modelling environments . |
| 2 | It is these economic stresses which bring about the tragedy of Margaret and her family and lead eventually to the Ruined Cottage , which remains as a symbol of these afflictions . |
| 3 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 4 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 5 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |
| 6 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 7 | It also houses a collection of old aeroplanes which make up the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Museum ; which includes among its exhibits a Lancaster bomber , two Hurricanes and four Spitfires . |
| 8 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 9 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 10 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 11 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 12 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 13 | The sugars formed by combining the hydrogen with the carbon dioxide are then converted into substances called starches ( the main components of flour and potatoes ) which can be elaborated further into the many complex materials which make up the bodies of living things . |
| 14 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 15 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 16 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 17 | Advice like ‘ it 's your age ’ or ‘ you 'll just have to learn to live with it ’ is beginning to wear thin and many people are seeking desperately for alternatives which hold out the promise of improved health . |
| 18 | Once again many of us were conscious of the opportunities rather than the obstacles which stand along the path of Church Unity . |
| 19 | In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills . |
| 20 | Mr. Clements , a partner in Crossman Block , swore two affidavits , dated respectively 16 January and 6 February 1992 , which set out the case of their clients . |
| 21 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 22 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 23 | Here instead are two famous paragraphs from Quine 's ‘ Two Dogmas of Empiricism ’ , which sum up the spirit of this fashionable alternative to Positive science : |
| 24 | Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section . |
| 25 | SCOTVEC is represented on many Lead Bodies and the various development groups which carry out the work of standards development . |
| 26 | By manipulating the fungi which exist around the roots of all plants we can make the plant more efficient at taking up nutrients and make it grow quicker . |
| 27 | Particularly recalcitrant spirits may refuse to do so , returning to earth each night in the form of black clouds which block out the light of the moon . |
| 28 | Low resourcing and poor material support encourage teachers to adopt a ‘ survival ’ or ‘ make-do ’ orientation to their work and incline them towards more control-centred , transmission-style patterns of teaching which revolve around the imposition of their own personal authority within the public setting of the classroom . |
| 29 | We shall reconsider the notion of presupposition in section 3.3.2 , but generally avoid the complex arguments which revolve around the presuppositions of sentences and propositions . |