Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koch decided that no exchange could be located within 1,000 feet of a school , which ruled out the possibility of a communitybased programme . |
| 2 | Saunders has a cloud over him with the possibility of legal action by Paul Elliott over a tackle which ruled out the Chelsea defender for the season . |
| 3 | It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain . |
| 4 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 5 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 6 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 7 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 8 | A system of transitional payments is in operation , which slows down the effects of these changes on current claimants . |
| 9 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 10 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 11 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 12 | Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i |
| 13 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 14 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 15 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's — a copy of this is enclosed . |
| 16 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 17 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |
| 18 | It was wild countryside , steep hills and grassy plateaux , scarred and gashed by steel-grey rocks and rapid , frothing rivers which tumbled down the hillside . |
| 19 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 20 | What with the addition of new capabilities to spreadsheets , and the advent of products which push back the frontiers of the electronic spreadsheet concept , it 's becoming a little difficult to draw a line between spreadsheet products and more elaborate financial modelling environments . |
| 21 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 22 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |
| 23 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 24 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 25 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |
| 26 | The SLORC issued a statement on July 27 which laid down the powers and responsibilities of the newly elected People 's Assembly , but gave no indication as to when it would be allowed to convene . |
| 27 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 28 | Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation . |
| 29 | Even the two towers , which peer over the roofs that block their view , are camouflaged by scaffolding . |
| 30 | In other cases it is a combination of circumstances or traumatic events which bring about the troubled state of mind . |