Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 2 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 3 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 4 | Conceptions which in the 1960s might have precipitated a ‘ forced ’ marriage now either lead to abortion or , increasingly , to births in non-marital unions , concerning which more will be said later . |
| 5 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 6 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 7 | Tatian was also influential for making a harmony of the four gospels which in the Syriac-speaking churches of the East long remained the standard lectionary text . |
| 8 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 9 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 10 | The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment . |
| 11 | The Haleiwa Theatre was a pink , art deco pleasure dome built by the sugar barons which by the sixties had become the hub of social activity , screening nightly surf movies . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They may also deliberately maintain extra production capacity so that potential entrants can see that any attempt at entry will be matched by a sharp increase in production by existing firms , forcing price reductions which in the short run will be unprofitable for all but which may bankrupt the entrant first . |
| 14 | we have obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief are necessary for the purpose of our audit . |
| 15 | Supporters of the ANL in the NorthEast are particularly concerned about the ambitions of the BNP including the intention to field a General Election candidate in Darlington and racial attacks which in the past year have included nailing a pig 's head to a synagogue in Sunderland and a similar attack in South Shields . |
| 16 | The main assumptions of this debate are structured by concepts and social conventions which through the past centuries have helped us to understand reality : keywords of emerging bourgeois society like ‘ individual ’ , ‘ society ’ , ‘ state ’ , ‘ market ’ , ‘ democracy ’ have slightly different connotations in different Western societies and in different periods but — on the whole — form the common language with which we communicate about complex processes and attempt to understand and structure them . |
| 17 | We have also , by dividing our observations into different linguistic categories , separated things which from the literary point of view should be brought together . |
| 18 | To every method must be added preliminary and post cleaning actions which at the very least are the assembly of cleaning materials and their cleaning and return afterwards . |
| 19 | thirty one pounds whatever on the twelve . |
| 20 | Section 1 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 , as amended , defines registrable designs as being : … features of shape , configuration or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process , being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye . |
| 21 | The decentralization towards the old industrial periphery marked a shift of jobs back to regions which since the 1930s had had dramatically higher unemployment rates than elsewhere . |
| 22 | This research project examines Southampton , one of the most dynamic of these ‘ sunbelt ’ city regions which throughout the 1970's generated more jobs than any other urban area in England and which has seemingly incurred only a relatively small loss of jobs since the onset of recession . |
| 23 | There were also some devices which counterbalanced this continual splitting of family resources , such as the partnership system of the family firm , marriage between cousins , and setting up trusts to provide income for daughters and wives which at the same time allowed the trustees , who were always men , to use the trust capital for the business . |
| 24 | Also , it facilitates the granting of security over assets which in the normal course of a company 's business are circulating , for example , stock in trade . |
| 25 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 26 | Both of those figures , sir , exclude any windfalls whatsoever over the next thirteen years , now if that is a justification for a new settlement , I 'm a disbeliever . |
| 27 | We can take no lessons whatsoever from the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I want to make it clear that the party has no links whatsoever with the British National Party . ’ |
| 29 | Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment . |
| 30 | In the case of restricted-use credit the CCA 1974 treats what under the common law would be two contracts , one of supply and the other of credit , as one composite agreement , if the credit is given under pre-existing arrangements with the supplier , or in contemplation of future arrangements between them ( for example with credit card transactions ( s187(2) ) ) . |