Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old British saying is : ‘ Whenever the cat of the house is black , the lasses of lovers will have no lack . ’ |
| 2 | This identifier was used whenever the zone to the left or to the right of the line segment being digitized was sea . |
| 3 | As we have seen , whenever the payment of the return gift is postponed , the relationship between creditor and debtor is extended in time . |
| 4 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
| 5 | Whenever the liturgy of the Word remains formal and lifeless , it shows that these fundamental sacramental and liturgical principles have yet to be learnt ( see Bianchi , 1987 , pp. 120–2 ) . |
| 6 | In the 16 months of Mr Major 's premiership , whenever the outcome of the election was mentioned here , it always said that the Tories would win . |
| 7 | In 1669 he participated in the pamphlet war between physicians and apothecaries by publishing A Discourse , wherein The Interest of the Patient in Reference to Physick and Physicians is soberly debated ; this combined an attack on the apothecaries with a vindication of the role of an experimentally active physician which he exemplified . |
| 8 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 9 | Would there be any drawbacks of a completely automated system of clearing , whereby the branch of a bank into which a cheque was paid simply fed the information into a nationwide computer and the computer then ( a ) debited the account at the branch on which it was drawn and ( b ) for clearing purposes added the amount to the total paid from the one bank to the other on that day ? |
| 10 | This could be classed as ‘ periodic citizenship ’ whereby the accountability of the public , through the electoral process , is reduced . |
| 11 | That is explicitly contrary to Article 23 of the third convention , whereby the presence of a prisoner may not ‘ be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations . ’ |
| 12 | The section provides the procedure whereby the holder of a licence ( other than an off-sale licence ) may obtain the consent of the licensing board to the reconstruction or alteration of the public or common part of the premises where the reconstruction or alteration is not so material as to be excluded by subs . |
| 13 | Resale-price maintenance ( RPM ) was the arrangement whereby the price of an article — an item of grocery or a washing-machine — was kept the same whether it was sold in the most efficient supermarket or the most run-down corner shop . |
| 14 | It is possible to enter into a guaranteed revenue agreement with the water authority whereby the income from the water charge over a 12-year period is offset against the capital cost and the developer is only liable for any shortfall on an annual basis . |
| 15 | The existence of a set of associations provides a means whereby the integrity of the design can be monitored and violations reported to the designer . |
| 16 | Commonhold is simply a system whereby the owner of the flat ( the tenure can also in certain circumstances apply to houses , or even offices or other commercial developments ) owns two things — first , the freehold of his individual unit and , secondly , an inalienable right to use the common parts and other services of his block . |
| 17 | This technique is significant for two reasons — not only does it aid the process of word sense disambiguation , it also provides a method whereby the topic of the text can be identified . |
| 18 | The advent of the networking procedures for linking stand-alone systems has provided a means whereby the role of the CAD system can be rethought . |
| 19 | If , for example , the Gnat 's Water Brewery , which operates three inns in a small country village , wishes to close and sell off one of these inns so as to improve the profitability of its remaining inns , it may insert a restrictive covenant into the conditions of sale of the inn in question , whereby the purchaser of the inn covenants not to use the premises as licensed premises . |
| 20 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 21 | Since the denial of reality is always a troublesome defence against unwelcome truths , a characteristic shift has occurred whereby the reality of the phenomenon is no longer denied as such but its significance is discounted . |
| 22 | There are also " structural " techniques whereby the business of the firm is organised in such a way as to eliminate or minimise conflicts . |
| 23 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 24 | The first is what might be termed a " status based " approach whereby the essence of the relationship between the parties would be considered when determining their rights and obligations and any clauses incompatible with their relationship would not be held effective . |
| 25 | This is achieved by providing a system whereby the information regarding the cut is conveyed in a manner closely resembling the conventional process of the skilled machinist . |
| 26 | Research in the police , Irving further asserts , is a matter of pragmatics , eliminating philosophical enquiry into systems of belief , or how the knowledge of an ideology is transformed into action . |
| 27 | Lord Romer said at p335 " but I must confess that , with all respect to the Commissioners , it passes my comprehension how the structure of a company can form part of a settlement " . |
| 28 | To consider how the structure of an organisation comprises all its arrangements for dividing up its activities and co- ordinating them . |
| 29 | Sir Crispin Tickell , Britain 's ambassador at the United Nations , who is rapidly developing the sort of rapport with Mrs Thatcher that Lord Cherwell had with Churchill , has been summoned from New York to describe how the rest of the world can be brought into line . |
| 30 | It 's amazing how the rest of the world manages to get by DESPITE the weather . |