Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And Wimpey has gone one stage further to ensure that even the openings to which the windows are fitted reduce air leakage .
2 When you have established the base on which the flowers will be laid you can then start to arrange the larger flowers .
3 For example , the alignment of the nuclear spin relative to the magnetic field in a fusion device influences the direction in which the products of fusion emerge from the plasma .
4 These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made .
5 Advice to drivers is to act according to the direction in which the wheels of the car are pointing , not trusting the signal given .
6 In wave terms this corresponds to the direction in which the oscillations take place .
7 The Bill is a commitment to nursing and to the esteem in which the professions are held throughout the country .
8 The system determines how many groups are active at the appropriate level for the appropriate table in the Working-Set to which the entries are being transferred , and allocates entries on a roughly equal basis .
9 In dense jungle or tall grass the shooting was usually done from elephant back , a comparatively safe exercise except when a cornered tiger sprang at the howdah in which the shikari and his gun-bearer were poised on the elephant .
10 ( 1 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall , in accordance with the provisions of this section , not later than three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered , cause to be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the area of the board a list of all competent applications made to the board for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; the regular extension of permitted hours .
11 The advertisement is to be made at least three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered ( subs .
12 It is therefore necessary to become able to recognize and attach meaning to the words and to the patterns of which the sentences consist .
13 Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed .
14 To show how policy can be effective in this model we first consider the case in which the authorities simply set the money supply to be constant , so that and are zero ( that is , expectations are always correct ) .
15 As society changed further , and especially as the political independence of the courts within which the poets worked was weakened and finally lost , the social relations changed again , and the literary organization became at once more specialized and more socially disconnected .
16 A useful technique to employ in such situations is to carry out a pasture larval count on the field on which the animals had been grazing .
17 The field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health … no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means …
18 Weeks later at his trial such a person not infrequently produces an explanation of , or a defence to , the charge the truthfulness of which the police have had no chance to check .
19 The notes to which the drums are to be tuned is stated at the beginning of the piece in score and part , e.g. :
20 Proviso ( a ) It is difficult to understand this defence because it is already included within the statutory definition of merchantibility as it will affect the description under which the goods are sold .
21 Fragment VII , comprising the Shipman 's , the Prioress 's , " Chaucer 's " , the Monk 's and the Nun 's Priest 's Tales , can be seen as a group of consistently recalcitrant texts : texts which somehow contradict the expectations that may be brought to them , either in the light of the genre to which the tales belong or in the light of the character of the teller as we might suppose we know it before the tale is told .
22 A balance between the things of this world and those of the next is represented in the scales to which the eyes are directed , an interpretation that was once confirmed by a quotation from Leviticus 19:36 inscribed on the frame : ‘ Let the balance be just and the weights equal ’ .
23 Nevertheless the taxation rules remain significant in providing the framework within which the parties can negotiate .
24 If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated .
25 Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released .
26 Among the cases in which the options are not stacked like this , is that in which the sanctions and disapproval exist against behaviour which is in fact frequent and not the subject , perhaps , of any deep personal disinclination ; this , at the limit , is pure humbug , like the old school-master 's attitude to masturbation .
27 Since the cases in which the equations of fluid motion can be solved algebraically are limited , numerical integration plays an important role .
28 Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods .
29 NatWest qualification is confined to the top 12 points-gatherers in Minor County cricket , irrespective of the division in which the counties play .
30 If we talked of society in these terms , Marx argued , we could never appreciate that the phenomena to which the terms referred were themselves only the product of a more fundamental social process .
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