Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 2 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 3 | That is the direction in which we must go to provide the best health service , the best opportunities and the best element of the classless society that I have talked about . |
| 4 | In this chapter , I would like to examine the relevance of these guidelines for the direction in which we should be seeking to reform the basic economic institutions of the U K economy . |
| 5 | He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ . |
| 6 | The results ( e.g. Figure 3.9 ) can be plotted in a graph of the rate of correct choices against the number of times the rat has been made to run through the maze ( where a ‘ correct ’ choice is one in the direction in which it will be rewarded , or in the opposite direction from which it will be shocked ) . |
| 7 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 8 | In a rather confused , uncertain , period Reagan stood out as an upbeat , optimistic candidate who , despite his failings , had an easily understood programme and a clear sense of the direction in which he would take his country , if given the opportunity . |
| 9 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 10 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 11 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 12 | His pursuit of moral ends did not justify his reckless disregard for truth , and his malice destroyed the privilege to which he would otherwise have been entitled . |
| 13 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 14 | In the case of what we would now distinguish as ‘ arts ’ , an early example is the fourteenth-century Florentine guild , actually that of the surgeon apothecaries but including painters from an overlap of working materials . |
| 15 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Not the basement from which they 'd come , with its shattered windows giving further access to this horror … not the service/access corridor with its hideous wall-bound parody of Farley Peters … but the door next to the basement door marked : ‘ Stairs ’ . |
| 17 | Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott . |
| 18 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |
| 19 | And I think you can rest assured that the quality systems will be the foundations onto which we will build any changes which are identified as being necessary , as part of next week 's get-together . |
| 20 | This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected . |
| 21 | I wish to explore the progress from 1840 , with its clear problems and answers , to the present in which we must incorporate much subtler considerations about our relationship with animals and with plants and with the inanimate world about us . |
| 22 | The signs of the coefficients on t and P t are correct , but those on σ and k are the opposite of what they should be . |
| 23 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 24 | The stoking , the music and the difficulty with which he could be knocked over , earned him something that even Mr Singer himself could n't buy — respect . |
| 25 | The contrast between what one might have expected if changes in line with public choice theory were being implemented and what has actually happened can be illustrated still more clearly by looking rather more closely at particular service areas . |
| 26 | Thus , it was not surprising to find one headteacher expressing some annoyance that the schools were selected by procedures which were not open to public scrutiny and claiming that a competition was only fair if all potential entrants knew in advance that the " race " was to take place and the rules under which it would be run . |
| 27 | These Holy Ones set out the rules by which we can live our lives and , in turn , reach the state of a higher being which is dormant within each one of us . |
| 28 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 29 | As a returner , these are the skills in which you will be expected to be competent before being allowed to return to practice . |
| 30 | So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly . |