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

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1 The US Department of Defence on Jan. 14 issued guidelines which on the whole reflected the policies of allied governments .
2 quick look at the map , the River Ouse conveniently chops Selby district in roughly half , and that there might well be considerations which for the sake of was not okay .
3 First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him .
4 The invaders were backed up by warships which from the mouth of the river Esk poured a crippling cannonade into the Scottish ranks .
5 They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary .
6 In the case of independent schools which for the most part are not run as independent profit making institutions and which set the fees to raise enough money to cover the cost of running the school , the test is virtually indistinguishable from a market value test .
7 BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ?
8 In the immediate post-war period , the main legal concern lay with local authorities which across the country were coming under Labour control .
9 Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships .
10 If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist .
11 Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior .
12 Conceptions which in the 1960s might have precipitated a ‘ forced ’ marriage now either lead to abortion or , increasingly , to births in non-marital unions , concerning which more will be said later .
13 It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way .
14 The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit .
15 There were only two coaches which for the most part were filled with students — except on Parma 's market days , Wednesdays and Saturdays , when they were crowded with country people .
16 The experiment has gathered wide support , even from left-wing groups which in the past sought to overthrow the monarchy , but which now express support for constitutional reform .
17 The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules .
18 Tatian was also influential for making a harmony of the four gospels which in the Syriac-speaking churches of the East long remained the standard lectionary text .
19 Moreover , some of the countries where xenophobia has been politically mobilised very powerfully are , like France , also countries which in the past received , even encouraged , and successfully assimilated mass immigration to an extent almost comparable at times to the US : Italians , Spaniards , Poles , even North Africans .
20 Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " .
21 To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life .
22 A particularly fine view of the castle and indeed of most aspects of this shoreline can be obtained from the deck of the lake steamers which in the season call frequently at all lakeside villages between Thun and lnterlaken .
23 Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them .
24 In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking .
25 He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’
26 UP AND down the country , in the backwaters of telephone directories and local papers and whatnot , to stars are leading secret lives which on the most eagle-eyed of NME readers can spot .
27 For these purposes a settlement shall not be deemed to be irrevocable ( by virtue of TA 1988 , s665(1) ) if its terms provide : ( a ) for the payment to the settlor or , during the life of the settlor , to the wife or husband of the settlor for his or her benefit , or for the application for the benefit of the settlor or , during the life of the settlor , of the wife or husband of the settlor , of any income or assets in any circumstances whatsoever during the life of the settlor 's child ; or ( b ) for the determination of the settlement by the act or on the default of any person ; or ( c ) for the payment of any penalty by the settlor in the event of his failing to comply with the provisions of the settlement .
28 I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him .
29 Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse .
30 Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop .
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