Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a ‘ partial subjectivity : that which fits in with the subject-of-science of the positivist ideology of science ; also , it is a subjectivity which is consistent with the rationalising subject of capitalist economic exchange ’ ( Henriques et al . |
| 2 | It also has three good , markedly dissimilar towns in Bayonne , Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz ; and a little inland , mercifully , a motorway from France into northern Spain which drains off from the coast the nuisance of merely transient cars and people . |
| 3 | The House of Commons , particularly , but also the House of Lords , is often thought of as a club and the exchange of views and striking of bargains which goes on outside the chamber can be and frequently is of much greater significance than the public posturing which goes on within it . |
| 4 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a main road soon , which goes up to the pass , but it has no cover . ’ |
| 6 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 7 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 8 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 9 | It is a link which goes back to the Bronze Age and was common throughout the British Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 12 | Man too has a mechanism of mimicry which goes back to the baby in the cradle answering its mother 's smile , older than any utilization for learning how others feel or how to pick up skills or even for play , and which can get out of control in neurotic echolalia and echopraxia . |
| 13 | He will make a recommendation which goes back to the Department of the Environment , who will make the final decision as to whether the building should be listed . |
| 14 | Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves . |
| 15 | You will be asked whether you want an S or a P trap , which often causes amusement : an S trap fits to a soil pipe in the floor , and a P trap to a soil pipe which goes out through the wall . |
| 16 | All model ship in the first quarter of next year , except the 755 , which goes out of the door the following quarter . |
| 17 | Keeping to the coast path — which goes very near the edge in places without any safety ropes — we passed close by Gateholm Island before meandering past craggy rockfaces . |
| 18 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 19 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 20 | In April 1991 LIFFE launched a new version of the Japanese Government Bond ( JGB ) futures contract which trades exclusively throughout the day ( 7 am to 3 pm London time ) on the APT system . |
| 21 | Tepilit is led by the askaris out of the small police station to a waiting van , which drives off down the track in a billowing cloud of dust . |
| 22 | It was the kind of speech which plays well to the gallery of bemused parents in a violent world . |
| 23 | Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m . |
| 24 | Most recently , the MX television , which sits unobtrusively on the floor tilting back and forth behind a smoked-glass screen , appeared outlandish at first but was quickly copied by the big manufacturers . |
| 25 | The major culprit is the keeled slug , dark grey or black with a distinct ridge down its back , which lives mostly in the soil . |
| 26 | The woolly mammoth , I explained to them , is a burrowing animal , which lives exclusively beneath the ground and is very common in these parts . |
| 27 | Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa . |
| 28 | Kilvert was very conscientious ( and apparently much loved ) in his discharge of his pastoral duties , and this gave him an acquaintance with an unusually broad spectrum of village society , which adds greatly to the interest of the diary . |
| 29 | Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks — which adds directly to the money supply — or , failing this , that it borrows from individuals and institutions , but at ever-increasing rates of interest , which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector . ’ |
| 30 | Picketing is a practice which stands uneasily across the boundary , as variously interpreted , of legal and illegal action . |