Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can happen that the ownership of one person is subject to certain rights which someone else has over the goods . |
| 2 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 3 | The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency . |
| 4 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 5 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 6 | A wobbling of the stepping stone , a panicky leap — and I landed sprawling on a soft , spongy blanket of sphagnum moss : to find the fingers of my right hand touching a small plant — which I instantly recognised as the common sundew . |
| 7 | Well this year 's capital expenditure will be around twenty five million and last year 's figure was twenty three million the point I was making in the speech was that twenty three million included nine million pounds for the , we must have some static in our nine million pounds for the purchase of freeholds , erm but the capital expenditure this year is spread right across the operation includes introduction of erm re-fits in a number of stores includes expansion in France , investment in systems and hardware and indeed also includes ah about five million pounds for a retail park development which I also referred to the park development on which we have an interest in the sense that we are developing an M F I store . |
| 8 | Grey is the colour of pavements — and of the walls of the centres for homeless people which I sometimes visited during the day . |
| 9 | ‘ I began reading politics early on but also my parents taught me that the greatest value was compassion , which I undoubtedly linked to the Labour Party . ’ |
| 10 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 11 | Both pieces of equipment had obviously been rebuilt with meticulous and loving care and shone with glossy new paint of the dark green picked out with gold which I always associate with the more impressive railway engines . |
| 12 | We sat around his bed and he went into one of the formidable silences which I now accepted as the concomitant of wisdom . |
| 13 | In such an ethic , my rational ends at any one time would be the goals , whether of long-term ambition or of momentary caprice , to which I spontaneously tend in the fullest awareness then available , and all my deliberate acts would be means to these ends . |
| 14 | Not the one in which he aimed highest , but the one in which his inspiration is most fully sustained ; the one with the strongest dramatic thrust ; the only one in which you truly care about the fate of the characters . |
| 15 | In particular , the sensory neurons make both direct and indirect connections with the motor neurons ; the direct connections involve synapses between an axon of a sensory neuron and a dendrite or cell body of the motor neuron ( this is known as a monosynaptic pathway ) ; in the indirect polysynaptic pathway the sensory neuron first makes synaptic contact with an interneuron , which itself then synapses with the motor neuron . |
| 16 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 17 | In a second article on the killings , Naipaul 's wife Patricia used the word ‘ antics ’ to characterise the behaviour of the De Freitas set , which she firmly separated from the serious politics of the Caribbean . |
| 18 | She dresses in a cat suit ( which she even wears in the bath ) , she eats raw fish on the floor , and sits on the garden wall at night , howling . |
| 19 | Dame Joan gave a compelling performance , handling the coloratura apparently without effort , and rising superbly to the final altissimo E flat — a stratospheric note which she then repeated in the encore . |
| 20 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 21 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 22 | The view of to taken here also accounts for the impression of what Riddle ( 1975 : 467 ) calls " control " which one often feels with the to infinitive , i.e. the implication that the matrix event is responsible for or affects the complement event ( cf. the difference between Jane forgot to be cautious and Jane forgot that she was cautious ) . |
| 23 | The ship 's electrics panel , which one usually finds in the navigating area for convenience , has been removed to above the vanity in the starboard after cabin . |
| 24 | The blood-red surround to the child again emphasises the raw reality of childbirth and is placed against the blue which we traditionally associate with the Madonna . |
| 25 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 26 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 27 | The results of this work were disseminated most recently at a workshop in Peterborough on 7 November 1991 which we jointly sponsored with the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service . |
| 28 | First , we tried a direct approach and ground up polarizing region cells and put the mixture into agar blocks which we then grafted to the anterior margin . |
| 29 | Certainly , erm , it has changed this year , erm , but the arrangements now are , that we produce our report across the year , with i , and as you can appreciate the report summarises various , of one thing we done during the with officers around the county round the Erm , at the , at the end of November , we commit to writing this report in summary version , which we then discuss with the Chief Executive and the County Treasurer in particular , they take whatever soundings they wish with other offices and then we agree that letter . |
| 30 | It may seem natural to assume that the divergences between different European countries , which we now observe in the war phase of the Gulf crisis , will automatically be prolonged in the postwar phase as well . |