Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun sg] of the [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 As we have seen , whenever the payment of the return gift is postponed , the relationship between creditor and debtor is extended in time .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This could be classed as ‘ periodic citizenship ’ whereby the accountability of the public , through the electoral process , is reduced .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 There are also " structural " techniques whereby the business of the firm is organised in such a way as to eliminate or minimise conflicts .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 It 's amazing how the rest of the world manages to get by DESPITE the weather .
20 Is it in order for a Minister to lay down to the House how the Chairman of the Committee that has been established will decide how the debates in Committee will take place ?
21 This article describes the experiment and considers what might be learned from it and how the televising of the House is now proceeding .
22 We typically have a relatively short micro-instruction format ( perhaps 16 bits ) , part of which specifies how the remainder of the micro-instruction is to be interpreted ( that is , it represents an operation code ) .
23 The pressures were money and patents , and how the competition of the market place can interfere with the more detached quest for truth in the laboratory .
24 They may not be unduly apprehensive about climate change , but they know about the greenhouse effect and how the state of the world and their own localities impinges on their lives .
25 The problem , in terms of the present discussion , is to explain how the evolution of the id and the ego up to the point at which hunting began could have resulted in its success and could have brought about the adaptive advance represented by self-reproducing hunting bands .
26 Chilean Communist Elias Laferrte offers the following revealing explanation of the fluidity of the political situation at the time , of how Marxism was introduced into the Chilean Socialist Workers ' party , and of how the evolution of the party was influenced by a blend of Marxist and anarchist ideas and attitudes :
27 How the chancellor of the exchequer performs in his new job could decide who is prime minister a year from now
28 I for one will be most curious to see how the chancellor of the exchequer wriggles out of that particular i issue .
29 Teacher Gender : The sample of teachers in this study , two male and two female , is too small to draw conclusions about how the gender of the teacher affects bias in transactions with pupils .
30 The example also illustrates how the flexibility of the system enables a student 's developing interests to be accommodated .
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