Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the balance between precision and imprecision which contributes to the success of his rhetoric , it seems — and perhaps to rhetoric everywhere . |
| 2 | In this context ‘ leadership ’ means more than the drive and direction which comes from the headteacher and senior staff . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Huntington says , it is the total system with its inherent opposition and paradox which makes for the novel 's interest . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |