Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.

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1 To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category .
2 Lacan also refers to the subject 's appeal to the Other , which is when the subject demands a guarantee of absolute recognition from another , that goes beyond what the other human being can offer as a response .
3 And people are sometimes aware that the kind of stress they feel is different depending on what the stressful circumstances are .
4 This refers to what the man 's beliefs lead him to feel or do .
5 This corresponds to what the Court of Appeal had evolved in its sentencing practices as the spontaneous kind of affray , which did not necessarily attract particularly
6 Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period .
7 This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech .
8 2 Think about what the girl might be saying .
9 About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees .
10 Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner .
11 ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ that depends on what the questions are . ’
12 Cos you 're actually supposed to think of what the message , the essential message you want to get across , and then work your illustration out accordingly .
13 His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant .
14 It all depends on what the exam results are like nationally , how popular the course is , and whether the admissions tutor was particularly impressed by your application .
15 Labour councillor Hugh Lloyd , who represents Upton , said : ‘ It all depends on what the Government say and what we get from land sales .
16 I think it all depends on what the British feel the response is going to be , either today or in the future .
17 The secret lies in the rhythmic and harmonic independence of the ground from the variations , and of both from the nominal 4/4 time in which the music is notated , though Britten further complicates this by making phrase-groupings of the variations irregular .
18 In the case of secondment to industry , it is useful to look at what the school 's short- and medium-term goals are .
19 It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice .
20 But it will make you feel better able to cope with what the world is throwing at you and it will give you a better feeling about yourself . ’
21 The County Council as I 'm aware was not actually consulted on these particular applications , and therefore I 'm not really in a position to be able to comment as what the County Council 's position .
22 And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say .
23 Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying .
24 He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him .
25 foster a glib superficiality , a " literary culture " too like that of those milieux of which the frequenters cultivate quickness in the uptake , knowingness about the latest market-quotations , and an impressive range of reference , all at the expense of real intelligence and disinterested understanding or interest in anything but kudos .
26 When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour .
27 A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) .
28 In the present case , the immediate proceeding in which the order was made was not the cause or matter to which the section refers .
29 To decide what you need , first think about what the small animals need .
30 It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation .
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