Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 2 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 3 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 4 | Only one fragmentary letter of his survives in the canonical New Testament . |
| 5 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 6 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 7 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 8 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 9 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 10 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 11 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 12 | But in truth their tour , the English section of which ends with the third Test at Wigan today , has been persistently downbeat . |
| 13 | The reservoir is a grim and comfortless place , flanked to north and west by the exceedingly severe Pic de Néouvielle and Pic Long — the Pic Long , 10,480 feet high , being the highest summit the entirety of which lies on the French side of the frontier . |
| 14 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |
| 15 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , UMNO is using the tactics that come with experience : Malaysia 's prime minister , Dr Mahathir Mohamad , is ostracising the Kelantan chief minister and putting the squeeze on the state 's budget , two-fifths of which comes from the federal government . |
| 17 | Australia is some 65% self-sufficient in oil , 90% of which comes from the Bass Strait field . |
| 18 | The VI sports three Jaguar-like single coil pickups , with a Jag/Jazzmaster-type bridge and ‘ floating tremolo ’ , the push-in arm of which locates between the 1st and 2nd strings . |
| 19 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 20 | Goldin is best known for her 1986 book , The Ballad of Sexual Dependency , an account of her intimates in the seamy Seventies nightlife of New York and Provincetown . |
| 21 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 22 | Research and writing on this subject has concentrated almost exclusively on abuse by family members and most of it occurs in the domestic setting . |
| 23 | Space heating uses well over half , yet 75 per cent of it escapes into the outside world . |
| 24 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 25 | The second stage of taphonomic modification takes account of what happens to the small mammal carcases shortly after death . |
| 26 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 27 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 28 | The match is to be played at Portmarnock Golf Club near Dublin and irrespective of what happens in the pro game this will be one of the main events in the golfing calendar . |
| 29 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 30 | The Masonic Religion should be by all of us initiates of the high degrees maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine . |