Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 2 | I would ask the class to say , ‘ What was our brief ? ’ … so the whole class and also the performers focus onto what the brief is in the performance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ’ He went on to say , at p. 196 , ‘ although … there is no direct evidence … proving undue pressure … a state of circumstances existed from which the court will infer pressure and undue influence . ’ |
| 5 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |
| 6 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 7 | The other prong of the attack was the political lobbying and the use of such institutions and fora as were open to the group , though few state-sponsored fora existed in which the long-term concerns of the DUC could be articulated . |
| 8 | In Korea , industrial policy had clear priorities and had used political power to make sure that firms complied with what the planners wanted . |
| 9 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 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 | My hon. Friend rightly highlights the problems caused by what the Government have failed to do in the regions . |
| 13 | At the end of each text sequence a Yes/No set of questions follows to which the reader indicates a response . |
| 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 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 16 | He also points out that many hero myths exist in which the hero is found in a basket , on water . |
| 17 | Experiments have been done with imposed wavenumbers outside this range , and some interesting instabilities observed by which the wavenumber adjusts to a stable value . |
| 18 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 19 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 20 | Repayment loans — customers pay fixed monthly repayments based on what the Finance House expects the market interest rate to be over the period of the loan , and at regular interval or the end of the loan , the difference between actual and estimated interest rates is calculated , and the difference is paid or received by the customer . |
| 21 | In Type B non-profit , because their finance is not provided in direct exchange for goods and services , there are often restrictions placed on what the organization can do with the finance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These , taken together with inferences drawn from what the rebels did , go some way to explaining why the revolt took place . |
| 25 | The user simply selects available options based on what the user wants to get out of the system . |
| 26 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 27 | The defendant moved for the discharge of both injunctions , and a hearing inter partes followed in which the injunctions were upheld . |
| 28 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |