Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 a dust particle sticking to the printing plate or blanket which appears on the printed sheet as a dark spot surrounded by an halo .
2 Naturally , the carrier can not be held responsible for loss or damage which results from the trader 's carelessness or negligence .
3 A functional is a quantity or function which depends upon the entire course of one or more functions rather than on a number of discrete variables .
4 The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association .
5 This is the payment or receipt which arises from the way in which the EC budget is financed and disbursed ( see Chapter 4 ) .
6 In many generalized insects there is also a median , unbranched apodeme or spina which arises from the intersegmental spinasternum .
7 Students then tick the boxed word or phrase which corresponds to the sentence they think they heard .
8 It is the balance between precision and imprecision which contributes to the success of his rhetoric , it seems — and perhaps to rhetoric everywhere .
9 In this context ‘ leadership ’ means more than the drive and direction which comes from the headteacher and senior staff .
10 The warmth and colour which lies at the heart of the poet though , whilst surrounded by cold , dark , lifelessness shines through for his beloved to see .
11 As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed .
12 These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour .
13 The situation here is a familiar one in anthropology : the recognition of degrees of commonality of attitude and belief which provides for the variable definition of what constitutes cultural boundaries .
14 For many cultures , the ‘ right ’ linguistic formulae have a sort of supernatural power : thus Sapir once spoke of ‘ that virtual identity of word and thing which leads to the magic of spells ’ .
15 In fact 98 per cent of Southern Californians suffer from the effects of photochemical smog — the thick pall of carbon monoxide , nitrogen dioxides and ozone which hangs over the 660,000 square miles around Los Angeles .
16 As Huntington says , it is the total system with its inherent opposition and paradox which makes for the novel 's interest .
17 But there is another 7 million tonnes , of equivalent calorific value , in the straw of the wheat and barley which has in the past been burnt in the fields after harvest .
18 This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports .
19 The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system .
20 But one can reasonably envisage a spectrum extending between two extremes of " language use " and " language exploitation " ; that is , between prose which conforms to the code ( Saussure 's langue ) and normal expectations of communication , and prose which deviates from the code in exploring new frontiers of communication .
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