Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [Wh det] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes 's ideas could find no place . |
| 2 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 3 | " suggested that arrangements should be made under which the Technical School should work in co-operation with the Grammar School . |
| 4 | Polymeric phosphatidylcholines have been prepared in which the polar head group forms the interface , and which mimic the interfacial characteristics of the lipid of these natural cell and lipoprotein surfaces . |
| 5 | The ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ would have a pre-prepared list of all sections to be searched by which the current situation could be assessed and reported to the Fire Service on its arrival . |
| 6 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 7 | Compared with what the humble pound sterling can buy in neighbouring English-speaking countries , like Ghana , prices border on the outrageous . |
| 8 | Thousands of boxes of parts arrive at the assembly line every week to be emptied and then simply discarded in a corner because Dagenham is not geared to what the modern motor industry calls ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery . |
| 9 | We all worked extremely hard on the project , and the band was really ahead of its time compared to what the heavy metal scene in Washington DC was doing in the early '80s ; we were faster and more complex than the majority of the other outfits in the area . |
| 10 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 11 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 12 | A point P on the surface is selected and coordinates ( x , y ) are found for which the metric equation is locally Euclidean around P. A general definition of new coordinates is Then where and |
| 13 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
| 14 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 15 | The air flow is then stopped and the second stage of the cycle is begun in which the hot coke is blasted with steam . |
| 16 | Once the two continents have been welded together and active volcanism and tectonic uplift have ceased , a new plate is created in which the orogenic belt formed becomes an intra-plate feature no longer associated with an active convergent plate boundary . |
| 17 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago , the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , in evidence to the Robens Committee on Health and Safety at work , said : ‘ At a company level , if a readily applied simple formula could be devised by which the financial loss caused by accidents and diseases could be measured … it would make a valuable contribution towards reducing industrial accidents and occupational ill health ’ . |
| 19 | They drew no distinction between what the industry needed and what it wanted , with the result that government policy was usually determined by what the foreign mining companies asked for ’ . |
| 20 | He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council . |
| 21 | But it also provides something of the history of graphics , and the visual principles which have gradually evolved to which the technical artist should adhere . |
| 22 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |