Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition to the current system was most vociferous among ethnic groups who claimed that they were disadvantaged under a system of patronage whereby members of the President 's own ethnic group , the Limba , were favoured in government appointments . |
| 2 | The growth of any general practice whereby decisions of the Cabinet or of Cabinet committee were announced as such would lead to the embarrassing result that some decisions of government would be regarded as less authoritative than others . |
| 3 | This is very likely to signify an alliance with her family , and nothing illustrates better how discontent among the English provided political opportunities for the Scandinavians . |
| 4 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 5 | ‘ Caseness ’ may be blurred in a setting where relationships with the community are close . |
| 6 | Younger men sometimes criss-crossed the frontiers of Carolingian regna : middle-age brought a tendency to settle down in the regnum where closeness to the king ( modern German historians have coined the useful term Königsnähe ) had brought greatest rewards . |
| 7 | A 135 acre site between King 's Cross and St Pancras will become a major interchange where passengers from the North-East and North Yorkshire will be able to change for trains to destinations as diverse as Brighton and Brussels or Portsmouth and Paris . |
| 8 | The affinity of each repressor mutant was estimated by serial twofold dilution of the cell extracts across the range where retardation of the DNA fragments was observed . |
| 9 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 10 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 11 | Past a certain point where ownership of the method or idea is registered and institution/company interests safe-guarded , the ideas are tested in the wider scientific world , using seminars , contacts etc . |
| 12 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 13 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 14 | Table 3.1 reveals that the OR was not restored after the retention interval when exposure to the test context filled the interval — habituation of the specific response to the light must therefore have survived the retention interval . |
| 15 | Second , there must be a facility whereby members of the profession can establish the acceptability of their behaviour before they embark on it — let us call it ‘ ethical support ’ . |
| 16 | High Tunstall Comprehensive School in Hartlepool became a cordon bleu restaurant for the day when chefs from The Hospitality Inn in Middlesbrough prepared a menu of haute cuisine as part of a home economics course . |
| 17 | I mention it here in order to signal that the existence of legal rules and sanctions makes it more difficult to uncover from historical evidence why people in the past gave financial assistance to their relatives , if they did , and in particular , to decide how far such assistance was based upon feelings of obligation or duty . |
| 18 | ‘ We really do need to find daytime firefighters who can provide a mainstay to their local fire station when others in the locality have to work away , ’ Mr Davis added . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks from here like there are some frayed areas on the Bridge where fragments from the Lift sliced across it . |
| 20 | A few of the larger towns in England had the right to elect a council to run their own affairs , but the great majority of Englishmen lived in the countryside where Justices of the Peace ran things in the way that gentlemen had always done . |
| 21 | He could not deny the success of last weekend 's Edinburgh Summit when deals on the future of Denmark and the EC 's budget were struck . |
| 22 | In a society where service to the state was a paramount requirement , the close association of political parties with wealthy financiers and industrialists was a serious liability . |
| 23 | A benefit concert is a two-hour show that begins at 7.30pm and goes on till dawn when members of the audience are either asleep or drunk . |
| 24 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 25 | Having reached a situation where healthcare in the form of surgery , physiotherapy or whatever is needed , they are unable to take advantage of the treatment available . |
| 26 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |
| 27 | Conversely , the reason why readers of the lowbrow press had such strong preferences for television news was not that they were particularly dissatisified with their papers but that they were particularly enthusiastic about the quality of television . |
| 28 | Careful consideration should be given before using the expert procedure in a contract where enforcement of the decision abroad might be necessary . |
| 29 | R v. Tempest ( 1902 ) 18 T.L.R. 433 , and for another case where members of the court were also city councillors , see R. v. Sheffield Confirming Authority [ 1937 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 30 | In a case where liability at the outset looks to be difficult or where there are many unanswered questions , a personal visit will be almost always essential . |