Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few ‘ basic ’ books on the subject of trade or industry which the local historian will regard as essential to his personal library . |
| 2 | A reasonable definition to cover wilful act would be ‘ any act , omission or behaviour which the insured customer knew , or should have known , was contrary to the terms and conditions of his employment or which he knew , or should have known , would lead to the termination of his employment ’ . |
| 3 | In the extremely emotional ‘ Sestina : Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata ’ Monteverdi pours out his personal grief for the young singer Caterina Martinelli in passages of declamatory solo or duet which the other voices accompany . |
| 4 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 5 | Further , the internal auditor , being an employee of the organization , does not have the independence or status which the external auditor possesses . |
| 6 | Local producers may simply sell their products to a domestic marketing board or wholesaler and neither know nor care who the final consumers will be . |
| 7 | But Swainson does not seem to have taken advantage of the ease and freedom which the new technique could afford . |
| 8 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 9 | Atiyah 's doubts about this trend in late-twentieth-century family law relate to his own model of law as serving conflict-adjustment and hortatory functions , and to his concern for ‘ the generality and universality which the very nature of law seems to require ’ . |
| 10 | The ideas behind it are partly derived from Hartley 's chapter on The Pleasures and Pains of the Imagination , which explained that — ‘ the grandeur of some [ natural ] scenes , and the novelty of others , by exciting surprise and wonder [ makes ] a great difference in the preceding and subsequent states of mind ’ ; he also contrasted ‘ the offensiveness , dangers , and corruption of populous cities , and the health , tranquillity and innocence which the actual view , or mental contemplation , of rural scenes introduces ’ . |
| 11 | The test of obscenity still required proof that the matter was ‘ utterly without redeeming social value ’ , but it was not long before social value was claimed for sex , a Californian judge declaring himself unable to find such lack of social value in a film which ‘ appeals to the normal interest in sex and nudity which the average person has in such matters ’ . |
| 12 | In Crime and Punishment itself the Petrine reforms get the merest glancing reference , and only one , when Raskolnikov 's friend Razumikhin speaks of ‘ us ’ ( compare the ‘ we ’ of the Drunks fragment ) as ‘ divorced from practical affairs of every sort for nearly two hundred years ’ . |
| 13 | It is evidenced in the lives of believers who serve Christ in ‘ Righteousness , peace , and joy which the Holy Spirit gives ’ ( Rom. 14:17 ) . |
| 14 | God 's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking , but of the righteousness , peace and joy which the Holy Spirit gives . |
| 15 | It is not the citizens charter that the consumers of this country want ; they want a Ministry of Food and Farming which the incoming Labour Government will introduce . |
| 16 | Slee expresses it very clearly : They need help in wrestling with the questions of identity , truth and commitment which the contemporary pluralism of beliefs and values poses more sharply than ever before and which are therefore very real and pressing questions for children of the secular century . |
| 17 | But what has become internalized can always become externalized again ; and so we have seen that , increasingly in modern societies , anti-social instinctual drives of the id — specifically , the instinctual drives of the gelada-like sons of the primal fathers — break out in social conflicts and acts of delinquency and provocation which the modern incarnation of the primal father — the police , the Establishment , law , order and standards of all kinds — have to meet . |
| 18 | Many Palestinians also feared that the PLO leadership would not welcome the kind of lively debate and democracy which the popular movement had fostered , but would wish to be authoritarian in its government . |
| 19 | It is the effort and pressure which the bowel-wall muscle has to exert in propelling onward the firm faeces produced by a Western diet ( rather than the soft and voluminous matter produced by fibre-rich diets ) which has been found to be the cause of this illness . |
| 20 | The pace of change and innovation which the latter had initiated with his new Science Block in the 1950s , and which Scott had continued and quickened during his years , was now reaching its logical conclusion with the taking over of the Convent buildings and the admission of girls in September 1980 . |
| 21 | ‘ I have no problem with testing children in English , maths and science which the new test does . |
| 22 | He probably had little understanding of the intensity of feeling about their rights and dignity which the communal life of the ancient monasteries engendered , and which Anselm shared . |
| 23 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |