Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [Wh det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any wordlist , short of a full-blown dictionary , must be highly selective and although the following must needs be short , it contains terms which over the years the author has found particularly useful . |
| 2 | Units are permitted champions which in the case of Orcs and Goblins are called Bosses . |
| 3 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 4 | His urine tests show glycosuria which over the months abates . |
| 5 | Get out at twelve By the time you 've had an hour in there swimming you know how busy when you 're swimming lengths what with the diving in . |
| 6 | In Varley v. Whipp ( 1900 Q.B. ) the contract was for the sale of a specified second-hand reaping machine which at the time of the contract the seller did not own but had still to acquire . |
| 7 | A ready way to identify substances which in the course of many thousands of years have come to be accepted as precious is to scan the windows of jewellers ' shops in Bond Street or the Burlington Arcade and their counterparts in the wealthiest cities of the western world . |
| 8 | Moving on then to freestanding form which in the expanded form would be , be freestanding and avoid coalescence with existing settlements . |
| 9 | These are merely convenient labels to attach to forms of observing people which in the actual live situation are unlikely to be found in a ‘ pure ’ form . |
| 10 | the terms of any such scheme ( an ‘ overseas scheme ’ ) shall , so far as practicable having regard to the local circumstances , confer benefits which in the opinion of the Directors are substantially similar to those which will be conferred by the proposed British Gas Executive Share Option Scheme to be approved as Resolution 11 ( ‘ the Scheme ’ ) ; and |
| 11 | For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area . |
| 12 | From the time of that first evolutionary change , and onwards through the whole of the Second Period , that is , from the start of life to the dawn of civilisation , millions of evolutionary events took place which from the very beginning were moving towards the creation of an ever more sensitive , complex and capable physical being , and this being , ultimately to become man , was always at the head of the process no matter what had gone before . |
| 13 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 14 | The US Department of Defence on Jan. 14 issued guidelines which on the whole reflected the policies of allied governments . |
| 15 | Clara could not count the times she had heard her mother declare that when she died she would be dead , and she would n't care what happened to her body , and for all site cared they could put her out for the dustman to collect sentiments which from the first had filled Clara with a vague alarm and horror , for they were clearly reasonable enough in their own way . |