Example sentences of "which is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed .
2 We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion .
3 The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble .
4 I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer .
5 What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings .
6 This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes .
7 This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music .
8 The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines .
9 Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years .
10 We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker .
11 The long slow movement ( track 28 ) is particular seems to be the core of Reger , prophetic of early Schoenberg or Busoni and darkly introspective in sharp contrast to the Mozart theme , which is blown up at the end of the concluding fugue — almost literally , pious Mozartians may feel , in Wagnerian harmony .
12 A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT .
13 of which is contracted out to the private sector .
14 At 31st March 1991 the scheme , which is contracted out of the state scheme , had assets of approximately £28.6m ( 1990 — £24.2m ) at market value .
15 This turning movement generates a tiny radio wave which is sent back to the scanner 's powerful computer .
16 This turning movement generates a tiny radio wave which is sent back to the scanner 's powerful computer .
17 They differ in operation : the control mechanism is a type of solid portcullis ( or ‘ gate ’ ) which is screwed down across the flow of water .
18 The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person .
19 Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . "
20 This is a major piece of work which is carried out under the guidance of a project supervisor .
21 It was said that if a claim is directed to a technical process which is carried out under the control of a program ( whether implemented in the hardware or the software ) , then the claim can not be regarded as related to a computer program as such .
22 Unlike the statutory listing of buildings , which is carried out by the Department of the Environment , it is local authorities that have the power to designate conservation areas .
23 There is , then , a difference between ‘ outsider ’ research ( whether observational or manipulative ) which is carried out by the external researcher with teachers as part of the data or the object of enquiry , and ‘ insider ’ research which is carried out by teachers themselves .
24 At nine o'clock , by arrangement , I rang one of my colleagues at the hospital , Dr. J. D. Underwood , about a matter which is coming up at the next medical committee .
25 Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman consult the Confederation of British Industry , which is coming round to the view that a 40 per cent .
26 A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences .
27 This prepreg material is then covered with a flexible membrane which is sealed on to the tool and the area under the bag evacuated .
28 In herbivores it is the larvated egg which is passed out in the faeces but in other animals it is the hatched L1 .
29 Behind the church , which is set back from the main road and screened by trees , a sequestered lane soon passes the large hole of Hurtle Pot .
30 A foreign lawyer becomes an RFL by going through a process of registration which is set out in the 1990 Act .
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