Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 A term used by Mary Finocchiaro , which she defines as the natural out growth of a lesson . |
| 2 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 3 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
| 4 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 5 | The following are examples of the petty attempts at subversion which one finds in the old books on election law . |
| 6 | All the clarity and detail which Griffith managed to find is there , but there is also body and warmth which one remembers from the original 78s . |
| 7 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 8 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 9 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 10 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 11 | My father has a flat , which he uses during the parliamentary session . |
| 12 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 13 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 14 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 15 | the individual … will fully capitalise the future tax payments where the debt is created , and he will write down the capital value of the income-earning assets which he owns by the present value of these future tax payments . |
| 16 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 17 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 18 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 19 | The program file contains a series of instructions which it sends to the Central Processor Unit ( CPU ) when the program is run . |
| 20 | What remains is released into an elaborate system of drains , penstocks , pumps , flumes , and concrete-sided irrigation ditches , from which it emerges at the Mexican border , severely depleted and laden with salts and pesticides . |
| 21 | There will be variations which stem from the background and cultural heritage of the children who are in attendance , from where the school is situated as well as the resources ( in quality and quantity ) which it receives from the local authority . |
| 22 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 23 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 24 | Previewed at the Manchester City Art Gallery in the spring , they are highly charged works bluntly tackling the issues of AIDS and the usually hysterical reaction which it engenders in the popular press . |
| 25 | Title II makes considerable amendments to the Treaty establishing the EEC ( which it renames as the European Community ) . |
| 26 | One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted . |
| 27 | Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals . |
| 28 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 29 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 30 | And I do n't care what she says about the wonderful home-style kosher cooking . |