Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original position seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good , but a liberal , individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path , provided it does not interfere with the rights of others . |
| 2 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 3 | In the case of a buy-out , disclosure should be made at the first board meeting at which the proposed buy-out is considered , and should be made to the full board and not to a committee of it . |
| 4 | Then came the disgraceful ‘ leaked minutes ’ of a BBC review board meeting in which the good name of the breathtakingly beautiful Selina Scott was traduced by a cad called Peter Estall . |
| 5 | The failure of such tensions to overturn or revolutionize the social structure has rested in the way in which individuals have been socialized and the fundamental norms according to which the society operates . |
| 6 | I appeared on the Front Bench in the Committee Sitting in which the hon. Gentleman referred and received an assurance from the Minister that getting a dispensation would not be a problem . |
| 7 | Rabuka had by June 2 secured an understanding with the FLP leader Mahendra Chaudry according to which the FLP would participate in the new legislature . |
| 8 | the classic spreadsheet package combining from which the vast majority of PC-based business graphics are generated . |
| 9 | What can be said , however , is that this sense of an ultimate monotheism according to which the gods are recognised to be manifestations of a single absolute reality is deeply woven into the religious tradition of Hindus . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The statement of accounts shall comply with any directions given by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury as to — ( a ) the information to be contained in it ; ( b ) the manner in which the information contained in it is to be presented ; or ( c ) the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared , and shall contain such additional information as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury require to be provided for the information of Parliament . |
| 11 | c ) the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared , |
| 12 | Important though these issues are , Derrida 's major contribution has been his insistence that history is a metaphysical concept according to which the meaning of history always amounts to the history of meaning . |
| 13 | To do this , we make use of the Phillips relationship according to which the rate of wage inflation depends inversely on the unemployment percentage . |
| 14 | Among the programmes focusing on what the Commission calls ‘ education , training and youth ’ are Comett , promoting cooperation between universities and industry in the field of the new technologies ; Lingua , promoting foreign language learning ; Eurotecnet , developing vocational training in the new technologies ; Iris , developing equal opportunities and vocational training among women ; Petra , preparing young people for adult and working life . |
| 15 | Sadly , after Hevelius 's death , the beautiful copper engraving from which the now ‘ obsolete ’ map had been printed was melted down to make a tea-kettle . |
| 16 | On July 8 , European Community ( EC ) representatives signed an agreement with Husseini according to which the EC granted US$35,000,000 as the first instalment of a $54,000,000 grant for the construction of 1,200 housing units in the occupied territories . |
| 17 | The second use of the z value is in depth cueing in which the intensity of the line is chosen to dim gradually as it recedes from the observer . |
| 18 | Women are dominated completely by men , who by the grace of God are deemed superior ; therefore , women will give testimony according to what the last man told them ; |
| 19 | Actual battery life will vary quite a lot according to what the machine is used for . |
| 20 | This is explained in detail in the paper , and the analysis in the paper ( and , indeed , the analysis presented at the time of the summer meeting for which the abstract was drafted ) is more sophisticated and based on a complete dataset . |
| 21 | It was this Council , consisting of members nominated by the Secretary of State himself , who issued the National Criteria according to which the new examination should be conducted , and who continue to approve all the particular subject criteria , which must be finally approved by the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 23 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 24 | By constitution we mean , whenever we speak with propriety and exactness , that assemblage of laws , institutions and customs , derived from certain fixed principles of reason , directed to certain fixed objects of public good , that compose the general system according to which the community hath agreed to be governed … |
| 25 | This will be the third year running in which the economy has hardly grown , or even shrank . |
| 26 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever happens , I do n't care how long I spend in prison , because I 'm going to keep fighting it ( this law ) from the prison depending on what the reaction of the public is … |
| 28 | Partly , though , it shows the degeneration of a world view according to which the conventionally ‘ romantic ’ tropics , strangely remote world of the ‘ breadfruit , banyan , palmleaf ’ have become a place |
| 29 | Multiculturalists ( for whom the important task is to encourage harmonious and tolerant cultural diversity ) adjust their view according to what the leaders tell them . |
| 30 | Tonight Scotland Today 's Stephen Jardine begins a special three part series looking at what the cynics call … the granny farms . |