Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 2 | The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg . |
| 3 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 4 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 5 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 6 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
| 7 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 8 | Too often they are dominated by smooth committee men in light grey suits with lukewarm words which swill around the mouth like watered-down lemonade . |
| 9 | Example 18 is one of the fifteen or so melodic fragments which make up the piece : |
| 10 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 11 | The system takes pictures from the Meteosat satellite in geostationary orbit 22,000 miles above the equator and NOAA satellites which orbit around the earth via the poles . |
| 12 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 13 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | This is supported by General Condition 2 of the Engineering and Computer Policies which sets out the action to be taken by the Policyholder on the happening of any event which may give rise to a claim . |
| 15 | The systematic pattern of adjustments in market plans which makes up the market process arises , as we have seen , from the market participants ' discovery that their anticipations were overly optimistic or unduly pessimistic . |
| 16 | Now it is open and defenceless against the machetes which slash down the undergrowth for tinder. — when the tinder is dry the fires can be lit to burn off the remaining forest to make way for agriculture or ranching ( in many areas this ‘ slash and burn ’ forest clearance happens without first even removing the usable hardwood ) . |
| 17 | Prepare agendas for the meetings which set out the ground rules , issues to be covered and those which may not be discussed ( i.e. whether to talk price ) . |
| 18 | Citalia offers guests three apartments — each named after the fragrant herbs which grow around the house . |
| 19 | The suggested group contributions are shown in table 8.3 and the solubility parameter for a polymer can be estimated from the sum of the various molar attraction constants F for the groups which make up the repeat unit i.e. |
| 20 | SCOTVEC is represented on many Lead Bodies and the various development groups which carry out the work of standards development . |
| 21 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 22 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 23 | The Danish proposal is expected to be backed by at least 42 of the 69 countries which make up the Convention . |
| 24 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 25 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 26 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 27 | To understand the nature of state power , it is necessary first of all to distinguish , and then to relate , the various elements which make up the state system . |
| 28 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 29 | Mine is one of those libraries which picks up the tab … |
| 30 | The testes commence production of spermatozoa ( sperm ) and Various other organs begin to produce the fluids which make up the semen , which will carry the sperm from the testes to the urethral opening through which they are discharged during ejaculation ; this is a continuous process and millions of spermatozoa are produced . |