Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The placement of the bolts by the Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is based just below the quarry , follows private negotiations between the landowner , North West Water , and Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is run by Peter Noble . |
| 2 | A National Ballet is one which is based firstly on the traditional stories , dance , music and customs of a particular country and/or secondly on the atmosphere , texture and typical life of a country . |
| 3 | Constant separations between the two categories are promoted , producing a dichotomized vision of left-wing , radical reformists , antagonistic to the ‘ right-minded ’ ‘ boys in blue ’ and includes a wealth of negative imagery of sociology which is lodged deep in the collective consciousness of the police mind . |
| 4 | That pregnancy should end in birth has an inevitability which is matched only by the inevitability that life will end in death . |
| 5 | Most of these schools are private , though parents receive assistance with the fees from a committee which is funded directly by the government and which allocates grants by means test . |
| 6 | In the course of their observations several authors comment in passing on the confusion created by gratuitous editorial practices of reducing note-values to half those that the composer thought appropriate — a muddle which is exemplified perfectly by the printing of ‘ five minims ’ where , in terms of the music example supplied , ‘ five semibreves ’ was meant ( see line 27 of p.13 ) . |
| 7 | In the same conversational turn , he changes the topic to a lengthy , rhapsodic utterance on the flexing motion of the aircraft 's wings : Anderson 's sudden topic-change and subsequent change of register in the very lyrical statement about McKendrick 's cigarette smoke , is partly explained by the fear of flying which he admits to here , and which is indicated just before the topic-change in Stoppard 's stage directions — " … |
| 8 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 9 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 10 | Alternatively , a replacement nylon seat can be fitted which is placed firmly on the old seat and a new washer and jumper fitted |
| 11 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 12 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 13 | There is a , a gesture there , of course , which is replicated right at the end is n't it ? |
| 14 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 15 | This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes . |
| 16 | Financial fixed assets of building societies are accounted for at maturity value , plus or minus any premium or discount on purchase , which is amortised systematically over the security 's life . |
| 17 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 18 | Some individuals have made minute contributions , each measured as equal to the single unit of ‘ goodness ’ which is defined herein as the unit contributed by evolution . |
| 19 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
| 20 | ( Note that what matters is when a gene affects survival and fertility , not when it is expressed ; for example , a gene which is expressed early in the development of the heart might increase the chance of heart disease much later in life . ) |
| 21 | Late in 1913 he wrote on a more factual note : ‘ Futurism is not without importance , and its manifestos drawn up in France have had an influence on the terminology which is employed today amongst the most advanced painters . ’ |
| 22 | A takeover offer which is made voluntarily by the offeror ( ie not a mandatory offer ) . |
| 23 | A voluntary offer is a takeover offer which is made voluntarily by the offeror ( as distinct from a mandatory offer ) . |
| 24 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 25 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 26 | My top mark went to Waitrose 's non-vintage Blanc de Noirs ( £11.25 ) , an elegant , finely structured champagne which is made entirely from the Pinot Noir grape . |
| 27 | Against this can be weighed the advantages of producing an article or item which is made especially to the customer 's own specification . |
| 28 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |
| 29 | Extra support is given by the scaly underside of the tail , which is pressed hard against the stem to which the animal is clinging . |
| 30 | The long slow movement ( track 28 ) is particular seems to be the core of Reger , prophetic of early Schoenberg or Busoni and darkly introspective in sharp contrast to the Mozart theme , which is blown up at the end of the concluding fugue — almost literally , pious Mozartians may feel , in Wagnerian harmony . |