Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special type of biological cell , being the unit of which the nervous systems of animals are composed . |
| 2 | The Dutch Black Pied , which has many synonyms , is the type from which the Friesian cattle of the world were developed , including the Holstein . |
| 3 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
| 4 | I think they are , upon the facts found by the Commissioners — whatever may have been the source from which the invested moneys were originally derived … |
| 5 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 6 | There are a couple more cases of recent vintage , but this is not an issue which the higher courts confront very often . |
| 7 | Even more problematical is the extent to which the higher costs generated in the South-East were passed on as external diseconomies to the rest of the economy : whether London was , and indeed continues to be , in Cobbett 's phrase , ‘ this monstrous Wen … sucking up the vitals of the country ’ . |
| 8 | A compromise was being hammered out in which the once-opposed concepts of design and transmutation would be synthesized so that the trends in the fossil record could be accepted as the gradual unfolding of a divine plan . |
| 9 | Another difficulty arising from having to use conditions rather than legal agreements concerns the length of time for which the reserved areas can be safeguarded . |
| 10 | A provision may be a substantive rule : it may be optional ; illustrative ; mandatory ; or procedural ( a means by which the substantive rules are to be implemented ) . |
| 11 | Large areas of basically rectangular fields around which the narrow lanes wind are cut obliquely by Roman roads . |
| 12 | The worst form of inter-group conflict is what is called a ‘ win-lose ’ conflict , in which the competing groups all seek to win and in which there can in fact be only one winner . |
| 13 | Also from Chicago is promised High Renaissance Art in St Peter 's and the Vatican : an interpretive guide by George Hersey in which the papal commissions from such artists as Michelangelo , Raphael and Bramante are placed in their historical context ( £45.50 , $57 ) . |
| 14 | This situation is different from the condition in which the present studies were performed and in which pressures were recorded over long periods , with the patient not being asked to take swallows . |
| 15 | There is still a good chance to undertake positive action which will strengthen the countryside agencies rather than weaken , which the present proposals look to do . |
| 16 | To the Great House accordingly they went , to sit the full half hour in the oldfashioned square parlour , with a small carpet and a shining floor , to which the present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano forte and a harp , flower-stands and little tables placed in every direction . |
| 17 | He strolled along the terrace below which the grassy slopes fell away steeply towards an ornamental lake . |
| 18 | Beyond swing doors were the babies : mended harelips , and small creatures who had constructed for them by human skill gullet or anal opening or separate fingers with which the working cells and DNA during their gestation had failed to provide them . |
| 19 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 20 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 21 | It was in the 1370s that the balance of the economy was seriously altered ; from 1372 there was a fall in basic food prices but no drop in wages , and this continued for some years , putting pressure on the profit margins which the manorial lords could secure from their estates ( 60 ) . |
| 22 | Life continued , and the rubbed and burst blisters were incorporated in the universal art of melting the ice-blocks in which the Governmental Bleeders preserved everything that had been preserved . |
| 23 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 24 | There remained talk that the new king would pay for the destruction of the threshing machines which the agricultural workers believed lay at the root of their misery , and there were stories that the new police — the ‘ peelers ’ — had been armed with 6000 cutlasses from the Tower . |
| 25 | It is arguable that the application of conduct of business rules must be justified on the grounds of the general good , to which the above criteria will apply . |
| 26 | There was also a highly significant reduction in CCPRs at all sites from 16 weeks to 32 weeks ( p<0.001 ) upon which the above changes were superimposed . |
| 27 | The way in which the above activities are set out in this handbook is deliberately quite detailed in order to suit those who prefer to know how to do everything step by step . |
| 28 | A useful text to have when writing anything is The Complete Plain Words , originally by Sir Ernest Gowers , published by HMSO ( Fraser , 1983 ) , from which the above examples of filler words are taken . |
| 29 | Discuss the extent to which the cyclical fluctuations observed in question ( 3 ) may be a result of : ( a ) monetary variables ; ( b ) random disturbances . |
| 30 | Finally , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , we get once again whole new towns created on the gridiron pattern , of which the outstanding examples are the iron and steel towns of Middlesbrough and Barrow-in-Furness . |