Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 2 | Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations . |
| 3 | This is a tape which prints out the information from the till and eliminates the old system of having to write out an individual docket for every transaction . |
| 4 | A distinction between the state , as the institution which carries on the function of government , and the government as the politicians currently in office , makes it possible to oppose policies without denying legitimacy , or even to challenge the legitimacy of particular ministerial procedures , without confronting the constitution as a whole . |
| 5 | The predisposing factors identified ( Eastman , 1984 , Hickey , 1981 ) include severe physical and mental infirmity which wears down the carer , poor communication , lack of respite care , lack of praise from the dependent person . |
| 6 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 7 | Holism , however , involves treating the whole person so that , hopefully , the underlying condition which brings about the symptom can be dealt with . |
| 8 | It was the same story which brought about the downfall of another huge yard — Tyne — in October 1989 . |
| 9 | ‘ It was really the loss of that one large contract which finished off the company , until then the factory had been fully committed ’ said Mr Madden . |
| 10 | New Historicism is , therefore , fundamentally concerned to be aware of its critical project and considers that any inquiry into the past must be based upon a current critical partiality which marks out the inquisitor 's history . |
| 11 | The two hydrogen atoms and the one oxygen atom which make up the water molecule form strong covalent bonds ( Figure 7 , p.102 ) . |
| 12 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 13 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 14 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 15 | Low resourcing and poor material support encourage teachers to adopt a ‘ survival ’ or ‘ make-do ’ orientation to their work and incline them towards more control-centred , transmission-style patterns of teaching which revolve around the imposition of their own personal authority within the public setting of the classroom . |
| 16 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 17 | He grabbed his overcoat which hung on the inside of the door . |
| 18 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 19 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 20 | He looked at his wife 's portrait which hung on the wall opposite where he sat . |
| 21 | From this it is deduced that one who is seised must have an estate , and unless he claims through some gift which cuts down the estate then it will be a fee simple … |
| 22 | The head of the team which carried out the research commented that " we 're amazed that no-one has thought to use carbonyl sulphide in this way before " . |
| 23 | Issa Abbas and Saad had been sentenced in 1986 and 1987 respectively for supplying money , passports and logistical support to the four-man team which carried out the hijacking . |
| 24 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 25 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 26 | At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , work by Janet Hemingway on anopheline mosquitoes has shown that malathion specific resistance is inherited as a single gene controlling a carboxylesterase enzyme which breaks down the malathion to its monoacid . |
| 27 | This is done either by an enzyme which breaks down the neurotransmitter or , more commonly , the neurotransmitter can be transported back into the presynaptic area . |
| 28 | Oil polishing is a lengthy and strenuous process which brings out the beauty of the wood like no other finish and imparts a most durable , dull sheen . |
| 29 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 30 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |