Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh det] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing in the event which is necessarily traceable to a divine source and nothing which proves the system of doctrines and revelations that we call religion . |
| 2 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 3 | I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides . |
| 4 | Where an order for possession is made under Ord 24 ( " summary procedure " for recovery of land occupied without licence or consent ) , r 5(4) says that there is nothing which prevents the order for possession being given on a specific date as if the proceedings had been brought by action ( r 5(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 5 | My Lords , as I would submit , the report contains a great deal which confirms and nothing which contradicts the interpretation of the word ‘ appropriates ’ which I have preferred , and a comparison of the Act with the draft Bill gives no support to the contrary view . |
| 6 | 3.15 This head embraces everything which reduces the plaintiff 's enjoyment of life considered apart from pain and suffering and from any material or pecuniary loss which may be attendant upon the loss of amenity . |
| 7 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 8 | A reinforcer is something which changes the rate of occurrence of an operant . |
| 9 | The desire to continue to nurse may have to be subjugated to the need to work at something which enables the other responsibilities to be satisfied . |
| 10 | The results obtained so far suggest that shape-specific long-chain water polymers could be the something which produces the physiological and pharmacological effects which homoeopathic potencies exert on living systems . |
| 11 | At the very least I had expected something unusual and exotic , something which breaks the rules . |
| 12 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 13 | In the former the ideas of theology seek to transform concrete experience into something which transcends the material world and sees abstract forces within material objects . |
| 14 | Cause , in contrast , denotes causation as indirect or " antecedent " , i.e. as doing something which provokes the occurrence of an effect . |
| 15 | Indeed the pressure for change is not something which batters the conservative position from outside , it is a worm which undermines it from within . |
| 16 | Indeed , ‘ reward ’ is a rather weak description of something which has the appearance of a deliberate partition of authority . |
| 17 | More precisely , it is the conception of something which has the nature assigned to it above all by the independent nomic conditional ( 5 ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , ‘ reward ’ is a rather weak description of something which has the appearance of a deliberate partition of authority . |
| 19 | Something which shows the Area Health Authority policy is their refusal to have any special facilities for Asian women . |
| 20 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
| 21 | The fundamental term was therefore " something which underlines the whole contract so that , if it is not complied with , the performance becomes something totally different from that which the contract contemplates " ( Devlin J in Smeaton Hanscomb & Co v Sassoon I Setty & Son & Co [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1468 ) . |
| 22 | Rather , " however " creates a contrast concerning the idea of a writer foreseeing the effect on later audiences — something which pulls the essay in a different direction from one which might create the expectation that Othello would be introduced . |
| 23 | It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after . |
| 24 | look , look , may I put it this way , we 're in the directive of being able to point to something which permits the Secretary of State to delegate the function , that what 's it for |
| 25 | Where steel-workers once laboured in their thousands , the facilities built for student athletes from around the world are hoped to provide the backbone for a different kind of economic prosperity — one which acknowledges the changing economy and society of both Sheffield and the nation . |
| 26 | But the model in place , the one which influences the way the health profession thinks and acts , is the engineering biomedical model in which the doctor knows what the problem is as well as the solution ; the focus of attention and what money there is becomes a technical intervention directed at symptoms and treatment . |
| 27 | ‘ Some people say no reform would be better than one which destroys the agriculture of the most efficient , provides an open cheque that must increase costs year in year out , pensions the part-timer and leaves the consumer and taxpayer to bear the burden ’ . |
| 28 | An example of such a clause is one which says the employee is not to canvass or solicit during a period of five years from the date of the determination of this agreement for whatever reason any person , company or firm who were customers of the employer with whom he dealt during the last three years of his employment . |
| 29 | The inclusion of the toy theatre is a reference to childhood memory , but it is one which lacks the comfort of Boyce 's flowered lap . |
| 30 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |