Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [adv prt] [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 | It is a link which goes back to the Bronze Age and was common throughout the British Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All model ship in the first quarter of next year , except the 755 , which goes out of the door the following quarter . |
| 14 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 15 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m . |
| 18 | Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa . |
| 19 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 20 | A rod or tube , which drops down from the retainer on the kiteline , engages a spindle on the main frame and is locked by a wire split pin . |
| 21 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 22 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 23 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 24 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 25 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 26 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 27 | The Sernf valley , which curves round in the shape of a crook , is served by a postbus service ( Timetable No 902.45 ) to anumber of village resorts , the terminal one being Elm ( at 977m , 3,205ft ) where springs the source of one of Switzerland 's widely distributed natural mineral waters . |
| 28 | For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south . |
| 29 | This produces so-called activenitrogen , which passes out of the plasma region . |
| 30 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |