Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes . |
2 | Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals . |
3 | An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community . |
4 | Proof of the cuscus ' close relationship to the kangaroo is the pouch for holding its young , common to all marsupials , also its comb-like hind claws which it shares with the kangaroo . |
5 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
6 | The difficulty is magnified when the sovereign is conceived as addressing ‘ the Commonwealth ’ comprising some countries which she rules on the advice of the respective ministers and other countries over which she does not reign at all . |
7 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
8 | This novel becomes ‘ readable ’ if we accept the psychologizing interpretation that Wallas is a kind of victim of Oedipal obsessions which he projects onto the objects around him . |
9 | Dwelly in fact lists many of the plant names in Cameron , on occasion presenting corrected forms of them , but also draws on other sources which he cites at the front of his dictionary . |
10 | The holder of a floating charge is not solely concerned with the rights which it provides against the company but equally importantly he is concerned with the priority it provides against other charge holders . |
11 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
12 | This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ . |
13 | The program file contains a series of instructions which it sends to the Central Processor Unit ( CPU ) when the program is run . |
14 | the individual … will fully capitalise the future tax payments where the debt is created , and he will write down the capital value of the income-earning assets which he owns by the present value of these future tax payments . |
15 | Though the 1988–1991 welfare reforms , particularly those in Education and the NHS , have tended to remove some of that discretion , nevertheless central government pays somewhat selective attention to the issues which it sees as the most politically pressing . |
16 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
17 | Each differs in the outcomes which it selects as the most important ones to be studied . |
18 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
19 | As a well-known London character with a penchant for miniature kites , and a lecturer on sewing standards , his advice supplements what one finds in the manufacturers ' manuals . |