Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubt very much whether they 'll be given any opportunity to voice what happens to them when they 're transferred or what happens to the fund . |
| 2 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 3 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 4 | That way we do n't have to worry about infinity , or what lies beyond the Universe . |
| 5 | Although which occurs at the head of the relative clause , its syntactic function is actually as object of the verb ( catch ) of the that-clause which is subordinate to the relative clause . |
| 6 | This introduces a factor 2 – so that which reduces to the previous result for the random array . |
| 7 | Buckley is unrepentant , arguing that what remains of the Scottish coal industry now has a more secure future . |
| 8 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 9 | By drawing in family members one is showing recognition that what happens to the vulnerable old person has an impact on others in the social support system . |
| 10 | Erm , I agree with my colleagues for what 's been said , so I wo n't say any more about that , but it is the point that what happens to the capital receipts , in the future . |
| 11 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 12 | Traditional psychology from Freud onwards has held that what happens in the earliest years of childhood can affect our later perceptions of ourselves . |
| 13 | They are , so to speak , tied to their own tail — an intriguing thought if one grants that what happens in the social world depends on what people expect to happen . |
| 14 | Yet it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the well-intentioned enthusiasm of a Vicki Hearne , or by false philosophy , into misunderstanding or down-playing the differences , and because it comes naturally to us to say that both we and the dog are angry , or frightened , we conclude that what goes for the human must go for the animal , making certain allowances for sensuous and anatomical variations . |
| 15 | did you ever raise with him back in January nineteen eighty eight something that you and Mr had both raised before , namely that what goes into the brochure is not to be relied on you 've got to look at the solicitors correspondence , to interpret what is in the brochure , did you ? , did you ever raise that with Mr the solicitor 's correspondence ? |
| 16 | If the strategy is not soundly based , there is every risk that what seems on the surface a good idea is , in fact , misdirected and misconceived . |
| 17 | One can readily appreciate that what applies to the siting and design of the pool also applies to the internal structure . |
| 18 | The outcome was a victory for marketing , because it proves that what applies in the world of packaged goods holds true in the world of politics . |
| 19 | Two points about Dunleavy 's framework can usefully be raised : ( a ) He tends to assume that what applies in the case of high-rise flats or town-centre redevelopment applies in other areas of policy-making ; ( b ) He places a heavy emphasis on the nationalizing of urban policy change , arguing ( 1980a , p. 98 ) that within ‘ broad limits the decentralised authorities implementing policies have moved in step with a precision that cries out for explanation ’ . |
| 20 | I console myself with the thought that whatever happens to the ankles of others ( and there is no doubt that prettily turned item is a tremendous turn-on ) , mine are contemplated without the libido 's charging in with its usual tedious cries of ‘ Me , me , me ’ . |
| 21 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 22 | And they interpret that as meaning that whatever happens in the money market exporters should still retain some of their current advantage . |
| 23 | Such a relationship can be described as structural , that whatever occurs between the above elements is controlled within the parameters of that structure . |
| 24 | An event which occurs after the breach of duty and which contributes to the plaintiff 's damage , may break the chain of causation , so as to render the defendant not liable for any damage beyond this point . |
| 25 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton is a member of the council of Justice — an organisation for which I have great respect and which operates under the presidency of Lord Alexander of Weedon . |
| 26 | As with the passport photograph that is used to verify the identity of the subject and which functions like the signature in official documents , this function of the face can be detected in traditional portraiture where the face on the canvas is there to represent the true likeness of the model . |
| 27 | First , one of the main characteristics of attachment behaviour , which we outlined in the previous chapter and which derives from the study of animals and humans , is the specificity of the required caring figure . |
| 28 | It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction . |
| 29 | Already we have that dichotomy between words and deeds that typifies hypocrisy , and which runs throughout the play . |
| 30 | 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group . |