Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 2 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 3 | If the board is sailed too close to the wind , the so called ‘ no-go ’ zone is entered within which the board will stop or even blow backwards . |
| 4 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 6 | The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role . |
| 7 | Here , an anaerobic ( oxygen-free ) environment is created through which the aquarium water is slowly trickled ( not to be confused with aerobic trickle filters ) . |
| 8 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 9 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 10 | The air flow is then stopped and the second stage of the cycle is begun in which the hot coke is blasted with steam . |
| 11 | Once the two continents have been welded together and active volcanism and tectonic uplift have ceased , a new plate is created in which the orogenic belt formed becomes an intra-plate feature no longer associated with an active convergent plate boundary . |
| 12 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 13 | Rather , the young child 's response is determined by what the child thinks the adult 's question must mean . |
| 14 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 15 | Now , though , a tendency is developing in which the idea of ‘ polytechnic education ’ is being reduced from ‘ many arts , many skills ’ to simply ‘ many skills ’ . |
| 16 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 17 | Exposure — Bodily injury includes exposure resulting from misfortune by any aircraft or other conveyance where travel is permitted in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 18 | The discussion is based on what the author calls the ‘ Boltzmann-Gibbs ’ entropy , but in the terminology used above it is just the Gibbs entropy . |
| 19 | If mixtures of certain types of rocks including carbonates are held in a sealed evacuated chamber at a temperature equal to the surface temperature of Venus then CO 2 is given off and the pressure builds up until an equilibrium is reached in which the pressure of the CO 2 in the chamber equals the pressure of CO 2 at the surface of Venus . |
| 20 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |