Example sentences of "[det] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher .
2 The centre will , however , often ‘ attempt to neutralise the influences of local interests in local states ’ ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 41 ) , and we claim such an attempt has taken place from 1979 to 1988 and that it is this which lies behind the current restructuring of local-central government relations .
3 When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm .
4 It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises .
5 Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) .
6 Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise .
7 The inconsistencies in public opinion point to the existence of a substantial section of opinion characterised by a cynicism almost as profound at that which lurks beneath the celestial rhetoric of George Bush .
8 Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before .
9 The greatest single factor that continues to arise in every type of accident is that which falls under the all embracing heading of ‘ human error ’ .
10 But the real point is that , in contemporary Western society , the network of relations within the domestic household is built on an evaluation of exchange transactions which is , in certain respects , just the converse of that which operates in the capitalist world of wage relationships outside .
11 Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention .
12 This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark .
13 The knowledge which is concentrated in government agencies is not only that which derives from the employment of professionals , scientists and technologists .
14 No attempt should be made to allocate the proceeds of the instrument between that which relates to the liability and any other element .
15 If the ‘ postface ’ is the attitude of feigned female acquiescence to male views , the ‘ preface ’ is that which objects , that which goes through the tiresome ‘ routine ’ of explaining exactly why these views are objectionable .
16 First , its approach is completely different to that which pertains in the United Kingdom .
17 This implies a level of studies which is clearly beyond that which pertains in the schools or non-advanced further education .
18 That which vibrates within the electron can be regarded as a unit of pure consciousness .
19 It will start with something like that which appears in the version set out in the New English Bible : ’ When all things began , the Word already was . ’
20 I take as the third period that which follows upon the death or incapacity of the parents .
21 Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined .
22 This view is similar to Hirtle 's description ( 1975 : 20 ) of the to infinitive as referring an event " to any point in time prior to its realization " , since to can be seen to evoke that which comes before the realization of the event .
23 Far from taking this supply of trained musicians for granted , the local church should be providing its own kind of expertise to complement and augment that which comes from the schools .
24 I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour .
25 Water diffusing from internal tissues towards the outer layers of skin will not be sufficient to replace that which evaporates from the surface .
26 Of the three types of relation to practical politics which intellectuals generally , and political theorists in particular , may have , the most important for further consideration here is the second — that which consists in the interpretation of current and medium-term political trends , in the light of some general theory or conception of political life .
27 The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man .
28 In areas like that which lies to the south of Upper Halling it would be desirable to reshape the terrain on a much larger scale , to link the existing pit being operated by Holborough Cement Factory , with the now disused pits at Upper Halling , and to re-grade the edges to blend them with their surroundings .
29 The rest of the budget is allocated in two parts : that which pays for the hospital and community services — three-quarters of the total — and the remainder , which goes to the family practitioner services — the GP , the dentists , the opticians and the cost of drugs dispensed by GPs .
30 Legal authority is that which rests on the rules of the organisation .
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