Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater . |
| 2 | Apart from the team and individuals at stake , athletes will be attempting to win places in the national side which to contest the European Championships , at Millfield School , Somerset , next Easter . |
| 3 | Erhard was succeeded in 1966 by Kurt Kiesinger in a coalition which included the Social Democrats . |
| 4 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 5 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 6 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 7 | have argued that Marx 's ‘ personification of capital ’ thesis depends on an untenable conception of the capitalist economy as a rational totality , a conception which obliterates the real distinctions between particular branches of production , markets and enterprises . |
| 8 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 9 | In the absence of any inter-party consensus on who should fill the office of President , no candidate secured a sufficient majority in 15 rounds of voting between May 13 and May 23 in the 1,014-member electoral college which comprised the 630 deputies , the 315 elected senators , the 11 life senators and 58 delegates from regional councils . |
| 10 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 11 | Voltaire praised our attitude to commerce , and the lack of snobbery which allowed the younger sons of the gentry to become businessmen . |
| 12 | If you find that you get ‘ lost ’ while knitting and transferring , mark the centre stitch which holds the three stitches by bringing a pusher from the blocking rail as a marker . |
| 13 | This officer administers a large department which provides the centralized services of cataloguing , interloans , reservations and book processing . |
| 14 | Weinrich-Haste ( 1984 ) , for example , in a study which examined the political values of undergraduates , found that sociologists , at one extreme , tended towards liberalism and radicalism , while engineers were the most politically and socially conservative of the groups she looked at . |
| 15 | Public cynicism about obscenity control was confirmed when twelve members of Scotland Yard 's " dirty squad " were jailed after conviction for involvement in what their judge described as " an evil conspiracy which turned the Obscene Publications Act into a vast protection racket " . |
| 16 | The report claimed that the Code of Guidance which accompanied the Registered Homes Act of 1984 was not being applied , partly because of lack of resources and partly because of the restricted power of local authorities . |
| 17 | Starting with a chapter which describes the observational characteristics of stars , The Physics of Stars goes on to explain these characteristics by describing the structure of main sequence stars , dwarfs , neutron stars and black holes : Two chapters not usually found in textbooks on stellar structure , one on variable and non-stationary stars and the other on protostars , make good reading and help the student to understand cepheid variables and the origin of stars . |
| 18 | The two men continued to stroll leisurely around the perimeter fence which separated the living quarters and parade grounds of the air-base from the restricted areas of the hangars and control tower . |
| 19 | In November the General Assembly of the UN recognised the government of Kasavubu on a vote which split the African states : Ghana , Guinea , Mali , Morocco and Egypt supported Gizenga as Lumumba 's heir ; the remainder , solidly francophone , voted for Kasavubu . |
| 20 | If Hughes is correct ( 1 ) the phrase " bought as seen " prevents the sale being by description , and therefore excludes the implied term in s13 but ( 2 ) is subject to control under s6 of the UCTA 1977 as , presumably , would be any term which excludes the implied terms by preventing their implication . |
| 21 | Margery Kempe finds the actual humanity of Christ 's life and death a pattern of living which transfigures the ordinary demands of daily life with a sense of the holy — an emotional engagement with the humanity of Christ which she shares with the " affective piety " of her age . |
| 22 | In his wake is left a highly-professional movie with some excellent knockabout acting and a level of pace and tension which exceeds the breakneck delights of its predecessor . |
| 23 | In this model rational policy-making is simply the selection of that alternative which delivers the greatest benefits net of costs ( from the elite 's perspective ) , a conception known variously as ‘ optimal ’ decision-making ( Arrow , 1951 ) , ‘ comprehensive unbounded rationality ’ ( Simon , 1957a ) , or ‘ synoptic ’ decision-making ( Lindblom , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Damage is assessed visually , and many countries use the illustrated Swiss guide Sanasilva which shows the various stages of decline in all the commoner native British and European trees in colour photographs . |
| 25 | In October 1919 , at the age of forty-three , she moved into Ivy 's flat , thereby establishing a friendship which brought the two ladies considerable renown . |
| 26 | In so far as this political power , as ‘ concentrated violence ’ against the bourgeoisie , is itself an economic force , it is the force which severs the capitalist relations of production , by putting the proletariat in charge of the material and physical framework of production … on the other hand , this same ‘ concentrated violence ’ is partly turned inward , where it is a factor in the self-organisation and compulsory self-discipline of the workers . |
| 27 | What is more , my right hon. Friend 's position in Maastricht has the support of the Confederation of British Industry and of the majority of British industry which recognises the increasing burdens that the charter could impose on it , which would damage our competitiveness in relation to countries outside the Community which are not so burdened . |
| 28 | Before that he had worked as GM in Brazil , exploring a portfolio of acreage which included the great tracts of land in which BP was an interest holder in the middle Amazon basin as well as onshore blocks in the Parana Basin and offshore in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin . |
| 29 | The labour director in steel and coal firms is a member of the management board which controls the day-to-day operations of the firm ( the other members being the production and business managers ) . |
| 30 | In May 1991 , the Secretary of State for Transport issued a revised direction to the BR Board which included the following provisions . |