Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offe stresses the role of the state as a crisis manager and asserts that there is today a ‘ crisis of crisis management ’ itself which derives from the contradictions inherent in the state 's efforts to compensate for failures in market mechanisms without challenging the private ownership of the means of production and the primacy of market mechanisms . |
| 2 | It appeals entirely to that part of you which lives in the throat and chest , leaving the spirit untouched . ’ |
| 3 | Using slides we will share with you what happens at a SPRED session . |
| 4 | In principle at least , no one disagreed with Kerschensteiner when he said that the education given should not be ‘ a mere trade or industrial training in the narrower sense of these words ’ , but should involve ‘ everything which leads to a wider outlook and a broader life ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , we have to take an interest in everything which hinges on the strange case of Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 6 | In the above examples , " the " has a meaning something like " the phrase which follows names something which belongs to a group which is already familiar to you " . |
| 7 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 8 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 9 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 10 | In a sense the whole point of making a group protest , for example , is that you can actually display some strong feelings or other , and is n't the , the point achieving a balance between some acceptable way of maybe even physically showing your disapproval of something and something which goes over the boundaries , actually ends up with damage being done to people or property ? |
| 11 | Would you like a scrupulously faithful ‘ photographic ’ likeness or something which delves into the soul of the subject ? |
| 12 | The basis of the receiver 's duty set out above was initially considered to involve the extension of the common law of negligence to supplement equity , but the courts now treat it as something which flows from the nature in equity of the relationship between the mortgagee and mortgagor . |
| 13 | Tribunals accept that an employee can sometimes be fairly dismissed for declining to do something which falls outside the scope of his existing contract , for example if , without good cause , he refuses during a business emergency to help out when it was realistic to ask him to do so . |
| 14 | More recently it has meant developing a sex education practice for all youth workers which means avoiding heterosexual assumptions and presenting lesbianism as a positive option , something which sticks in the throat of many workers . |
| 15 | It may be sufficient if it imputes a quality in something which applies to an already well-known product , an important factor being whether the public will be deceived . |
| 16 | The assessment of the bidder 's capacity to run the target company is , in other words , something which lies within the range of the directors ' expertise . |
| 17 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 18 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 19 | We all know how to use pens , we were taught how to use pen in primary school , but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but is reading something which does n't look like letters of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 20 | This suggests that the modals differ from do auxiliary in involving a representation of the infinitive event , not as something whose real existence coincides with the present or past time-stretch expressed by the auxiliary , but as something which coincides with the modal only inasmuch as its existence as a potential is concerned . |
| 21 | Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted . |
| 22 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 23 | This ‘ democratization ’ is , as Bernard reminds us , a relatively new trend of the last hundred or two hundred years , and one which contrasts with an earlier situation where marriage was ‘ … a kind of privilege , a prerogative , a gift bestowed by the community ’ ( Bernard , 1976 , p. 123 ) . |
| 24 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 25 | A relatively short route but one which climbs to a height of 2,654ft to the summit of Meall a'Bhuachaille and so should be treated as a serious hill walk . |
| 26 | A long shot is one which takes in the whole of a scene . |
| 27 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 28 | There is yet another story of hide and seek on these hills , but there is historical evidence for this one which dates from the autumn of 1536 . |
| 29 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
| 30 | The difference between a machine which responds to mere sound and one which responds to the spoken language is like the difference between the speaking clock and the operator in the telephone system . |