Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This subsection does not , of course , affect any liability for negligence which the defendant may incur qua occupier of the premises or keeper of the animal , but it is thought that the keeping of guard dogs is consistent with the occupier 's duty to trespassers , provided at least some warning of their presence is given . |
| 2 | This consisted of a graphic workspace and primitive GIS operations shown as icons which the user selected from a palette and assembled in the workspace . |
| 3 | An action lies for damage which the plaintiff has suffered through being out of possession of land . |
| 4 | To repeat : the discussion is about investments which the group sees to be significant . |
| 5 | But er I was saying to Mrs the other day , asked about Scott what the heck ! |
| 6 | Call-slips for books which the Library was unable to supply were also collected and information transferred from them to data sheets . |
| 7 | He was arraigned for heresy in 1457 , after publishing his The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy , ‘ A secular doctor of divinity , that had laboured many years to translate Holy Scripture into English , passing the bounds of divinity and of Christian belief . |
| 8 | But historians now recognize that for Darwin himself the idea of natural selection arose from a dialogue between his geographical studies and his interest in the process of reproduction by which the species is maintained . |
| 9 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |
| 10 | In Japan a qualifying examination ( which seems to have worked well and produced very good recruits ) began in 1894 , a minor but significant aspect of the extraordinary process of change which the country was now undergoing . |
| 11 | The only ray of hope which the BDDA perceived in the report was Dr Eichholz 's call for " a close study of all methods of communication including phonetics linguistics , fingerspelling , finger-reading and gesture " , coupled with a recommendation that " fingerspelling ( the spelling and the reading of it ) should be taught in schools at least in the final period of school life . " |
| 12 | This is a source of noise which the learner must tolerate . |
| 13 | ONE OF the most common types of damage which the novice pilot is likely to inflict on his model is that caused by one of the main rotor blades coming into contact with the tailboom . |
| 14 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 15 | You will probably be amazed by the range of yarns which the garter carriage can use — smooth and slightly textured acrylics of any thickness , wool , most cottons ( although not those with a very strong twist ) and even some suitable fancy yarns , for example chenille . |
| 16 | The other is the idea of political equality which presupposes that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom of decision whatever the effect on the general good , then all men must have the same freedom ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 199 ) . |
| 17 | In February 1962 , Eddie McAteer asked Minister of Health and Local Government W. J. Morgan for the numbers of houses which the corporation and the NIHT expected to finish in Derry that year . |
| 18 | But this ‘ set ’ is the product not of equivalences , nor of violation of an external norm , but of the violation of norms which the text itself creates . |
| 19 | If these terms cause difficulties , alternatives can be suggested once the kinds of contract which the Business normally enters into become clear to the Purchaser . |
| 20 | Can not the sort of difficulty which the theist experiences in terms of describing God , for instance , as personal and impersonal , be justified by pointing out that attempting to think beyond the limits of thought is bound to entail stretching ordinary language beyond what it would normally bear ? |
| 21 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 22 | This method has to be handled with a great deal of care since the danger is that it will result in exactly the kind of antagonism which the salesperson is wishing to avoid . |
| 23 | Progress will be shown by increased fluency ; an increase in the range of types of text which the pupil can tackle without frustration ; an increase in the range of approaches which readers can apply to particular texts according to their own purposes and those of the texts — skimming , scanning , close reading and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ Certified normal accommodation ’ ( CNA ) , the official figures for the number of prisoners which the system can officially cater for without overcrowding , allowed for 45,268 prisoners . |
| 25 | The total number of hours in the two orders was 270 , which exceeded the maximum aggregate number of hours which the court would order on the same occasion by virtue of Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 , S. 14(3) in its original form . |
| 26 | I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill . |
| 27 | The classic mistake has been to confuse experiences involved in learning with all other kinds of experience which the animal can have during its development ( see Lehrman , 1970 ) . |
| 28 | We have to conclude , I think , that there is a very wide range of meanings which the progressive can be associated with but that these are determined by the particular choice of lexis and are not independently a property of the grammatical category of aspect . |
| 29 | The first four volumes , published between 1974 and 1985 , dealt with Monet 's long career chronologically and listed and illustrated nearly 2000 paintings , culminating in the series of canvases which the artist prepared for installation in the Orangerie . |
| 30 | and it has , it has represented volumes of money which the state ca n't or wo n't or does n't carry on with . |