Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 2 | The dictionary shows how efficiency in the formulation of meaning can be achieved by synthesis , the grammar shows how it can be achieved by analysis . |
| 3 | However , it is a moot point as to how representative of the Church of England the General Synod is , or indeed any other of the layers — Diocesan or Deanery . |
| 4 | The principal method of investigation is a postal inquiry followed by personal visits to selected record offices ; an attempt is also being made to assess how representative of the country as a whole the areas that have been selected are . |
| 5 | The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed . |
| 6 | Their numbers have decreased since 1980 , when responsibility for the provision of school meals was delegated to LEAs , with a legal obligation to provide meals only to children in families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement . |
| 7 | This is in sharp contrast to Britain where progress up the hierarchy of the party is very much a process of starting at the bottom and working up , first to a seat in Parliament and then , possibly , to ministerial office . |
| 8 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 9 | Having reached a situation where healthcare in the form of surgery , physiotherapy or whatever is needed , they are unable to take advantage of the treatment available . |
| 10 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 11 | BA was given the green light for the move yesterday when President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine decided not to refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 12 | Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 introduced the procedure universally known as the ‘ leap-frog ’ procedure to deal with those cases where determination by the Court of Appeal might not be the most effective way of disposing of the case . |
| 13 | In Britain , where suspicion of the army as a possible instrument of tyranny together with a generally rising level of prosperity made recruits unusually hard to obtain , this element was prominent . |
| 14 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 15 | Figure 2 A neuron simply transmits information from one place to another in the brain , but its trigger feature determines what pattern it responds to , and its projective zone determines where news of the occurrence of this pattern is sent . |
| 16 | The basing of art on such a ritual is pointless , as Eliot indicated when writing of the medium about which some of his most important remarks of this period were passed . |
| 17 | By referring to ‘ any proceedings brought because of an alleged odour nuisance ’ it is clear that the Department of Environment did not intend to restrict the occasions when adherence to the code of practice may , at the discretion of the court be a relevant consideration . |
| 18 | So why chop off the hand of the messenger when the news turns out to be good ? ’ |