Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 2 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 3 | For example among all the delays which push work into the winter period there must be some which push it out of the other end of winter into summer . |
| 4 | ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street . |
| 5 | One method , which by-passes the problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation , is to speak it direct to a microphone which records it straight onto the video tape via the mixer during a non-stop transfer . |
| 6 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 7 | The culture industry does retain a trace of something better in those features which bring it close to the circus , in the self-justifying and nonsensical skill of riders , acrobats and clowns , in the ‘ defense and justification of physical as against intellectual art ’ ( Wedekind ) . |
| 8 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 9 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 10 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 11 | It can not , except in a thoroughly perverted form , be a satisfactory instrument for party political indoctrination and it can not live happily in a situation which subjects it continually to the harsher pressures of party political confrontation . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |
| 13 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 14 | Eyuphuro , from the Macua word meaning whirlwind , is an apt name for a band which whirls you away from the all-too-prevalent perception of Mozambique as a place of war , famine and refugees , to the image of a young and dynamic society . |
| 15 | Eyuphuro , from the Macua word meaning whirlwind , is an apt name for a band which whirls you away from the all-too-prevalent perception of Mozambique as a place of war , famine and refugees , to the image of a young and dynamic society . |
| 16 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 17 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 18 | The dragon spread its wings and gave an experimental flap , which lifted it momentarily off the ground . |
| 19 | It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl . |
| 20 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 21 | Their views are then taken forward to the Central Association which passes them on to the Bank through forums such as the Joint Consultative Committee . |
| 22 | When it is obvious that the other 11 Governments are prepared to accept the draft before them at Maastricht today and that this Government are not , the Government are confessing to a unique combination of political prejudice and economic weakness which marks them out from the rest of the Community and which marks Britain down in the Community . |
| 23 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |
| 24 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 25 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 26 | But the notion of the ‘ analytic ’ graduate also raises some difficult questions about the impact of the undergraduate curriculum on student development , which leads us on to the next chapter . |
| 27 | Other examples include Marks and Spencer , and British Home Stores , two chains which based themselves originally on the clothing trade , but which between them have diversified into footwear , foodstuffs , toys and books , amongst other items . |
| 28 | The back condition which troubled him sorely during the club 's invaluable spring tour of Zimbabwe , returned with a vengeance and he was obliged to miss some cricket while under constant treatment . |
| 29 | There was even a smudgy photograph , apparently taken at a party , which showed them together over the canapes . |
| 30 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |