Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , what amounts to obstruction may depend on what the policeman is seeking to do . |
| 2 | Very dark halls with little or no natural light will benefit from what the Americans call ‘ Plugmold ’ . |
| 3 | Yet a consciousness can occur in which the focal attentiveness on a theme is absent ; in a deeply relaxed mood one simply gazes upon the world . |
| 4 | I think that a case might arise in which the reputation of a local authority might be damaged , so as to impair its function for the public good , in which no private individual was defamed ; and in which the public interest would be served by the taking of proceedings for libel by the local authority in order to determine the falsity of the charge . |
| 5 | In doing so the law would concentrate on what the accused dishonestly achieved or attempted to achieve and not on the means — taking or otherwise — which he used in order to do so . |
| 6 | The exact nature of the competing behaviour will depend on what the priority problem is . |
| 7 | Again the prosecution must rely on what the driver tells them or on written instructions and , in rare cases , on admissions by the employer . |
| 8 | When the above questions concerning the Bromley case have been answered there is still the further crucial question as to how far the authority can deviate from what the court believes to be the correct proportionate balance between the respective interests . |
| 9 | It is difficult , I think , with the experience of such societies in mind , to attribute a theoretical sense to the idea that a type of society will emerge in which the state and politics no longer exist . |
| 10 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 11 | A situation would arise in which the very order which is the objective of law would have to be violated in order to achieve that objective , and this is unacceptable since international law is not an end in itself , but an instrument to be justified largely by its contribution to the limitation of violence . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , the skill of medical care in all specialties is balancing what the patient will accept with what the patient should accept . |
| 13 | However , it should be borne in mind that on announcement , a ‘ grey ’ market may start in which the issue may be traded before it is issued . |
| 14 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 15 | When the cards were , from the er , the workshop would come in which the lads had done their work , I mean , one of them , I know dear old Pete , in particular , he 'd write for crome , C R double O M , because that 's how he 'd say it . |