Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible . |
| 2 | When fully developed ( Figs. and 48 ) they consist essentially of a pair of claspers which help to grip the female during copulation and between which lies the aedeagus . |
| 3 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 4 | These gentle domestic works have much in common with paintings by Winifred Nicholson , Christopher Wood and Frances Hodgkins , through which runs the thread of nature mediated by the imagination . |
| 5 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 6 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 7 | The rental of each office is on a month 's licence the fee for which includes the cost of a receptionist , rates , water and electricity , heating , lighting , insurance , cleaning maintenance , security , 24-hour access and secure parking . |
| 8 | YOU CAN see the ninety feet high Victorian church spire of St Michael ( extreme right ) a mile away on a small hill , below which lies the unassuming village of Sutton . |
| 9 | In the saloon 17 passengers are at tables with the latest type of well-upholstered seating , the covering material of which features the company 's monogram . |
| 10 | Each ganglion gives off two pairs of principal nerves , one of which supplies the general musculature of the segment and the other innervates the muscles of the legs . |
| 11 | For routine meetings with fixed agenda , such as project review meetings , it is often possible for the agenda and the minutes to be the same standard form , one part of which records the information to be considered ( the agenda ) and the other the decisions taken ( the minutes ) . |
| 12 | Main roots penetrate several different layers of subsoil , the structure of which influences the root system 's depth , its drainage and its ability to collect essential minerals . |
| 13 | The SP1 runs AIX/6000 Version 3.2.3 on top of which sits the Parallel Operating Environment . |
| 14 | Delrina Technology Inc , Toronto developer of communications and facsimile packages for Windows has completed a previously-announced private placing to raise $12.5m with the issue of 1.75m special warrants at C$7.125 a warrant , each of which entitles the holder to receive one common share of the company without further payment . |
| 15 | Its ‘ classical ’ location is within large-scale bureaucratic organisations , the hierarchical structure of which enables the upward movement of individuals through an ordered succession of jobs . |
| 16 | All of which prompts the obvious question : how fundamental were these changes ? |
| 17 | Hoping to make a fortune for himself , he invests his savings , and induces Clennam to do likewise , in one of Merdle 's companies , the subsequent collapse of which involves the ruin of them both . |
| 18 | Aldous Huxley envisaged ‘ a kind of religious order , membership of which involves the acceptance of a certain way of life , and entails devoted and unremitting personal service for the cause . |
| 19 | Other very much less drastic cuts are also made , and there are numerous changes of orchestration , one of which involves the substitution of an organ for harmonium at the end of the work . |
| 20 | It has announced three options , the most ambitious of which involves the extension of the various stations ' 30 year operating lives by between three and seven years . |
| 21 | The kiai originates from the diaphragm , thus using the muscles of the lower chest and stomach , the strong contraction of which forces the air out of the lungs . |
| 22 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 23 | There is , indeed , a divine magnitude to this demi-continent of nearly four million square miles , almost half of which constitutes the backbone of the country — the famous Canadian Shield , a range of ancient rocklands ( the world 's oldest ) which arcs from Labrador in the east , through Quebec far into southern Ontario , thence piercing north for 2000 miles into the Arctic itself . |
| 24 | All of which keeps the pilot alert and in control , even on the most fatiguing of journeys . |
| 25 | If they are in a minority , then let them at least refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task , on the successful fulfilment of which depends the well being , the prosperity and the duration of the whole British Empire . |
| 26 | The former , the central panel of which depicts the Crucifixion , is said to be one of the finest examples in the North of the noted stained glass expert , William Morris . |
| 27 | To mark Glasgow 's year as the European City of Culture , The Royal Mail is printing a set of stamps , one of which depicts the facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory . |
| 28 | Out of this soil soar elegant churches , each of which encodes the symbols of an alien religion . |
| 29 | There is a cherry-wood bathroom , the splendid Pink Bedroom , and the rooms where the Nethercotts ' three sons sleep and play — one of which sports the only Velux in the house . |
| 30 | A limited partner , however , contributes capital or property to the partnership on entry , the valuation of which represents the limit of his liability for the firm 's debts and obligations . |