Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is only one respect in which camp delights in the selfsame artifice which others distrust . |
| 2 | The section allows a licensing board to grant an occasional permission to a representative of a voluntary organisation whereby liquor may be sold during specified hours in the course of catering for a function outwith licensed premises , which function arises from the activities of the organisation ( subs . |
| 3 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 4 | Consistently the American players rise to the challenge which Arnold makes in the finales of all these works . |
| 5 | More arresting are readings which note the inescapable presence of the Christian religion in the ambient of the tale , embodied in the church — to which Alison goes on the " " haliday " " and where Absolon " " gooth with a sencer " " , or where the " " freres in the chauncel gonne synge " " — and in the Bible : echoes of the Song of Solomon in the descriptions of Alison and Absolon , and in Absolon 's love song ( 3698 – 707 ) . |
| 6 | It is your husband-to-be who declares ( or will declare , and of course I may misquote ) that poets are mirrors of the tremendous shadows which futurity casts upon the present , and the unacknowledged legislators of the world . |
| 7 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 8 | The second issue concerns the art-science relationship which Kemp analyses through the history of perspective and of colour . |
| 9 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 10 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 11 | The restriction on volume and speed of delivery means that images can only be built up slowly , at a pace determined by the rate at which data arrives at the terminal . |
| 12 | These ideas will be discussed later in more detail , but here it is important to note the interrelationship which Freud posits between the two sets of instinctual impulses . |
| 13 | It did not look at rape as a social problem nor did it have regard to the difficulties which rape poses for the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | The problem for Trotsky was thus very similar to the problem which bureaucracy poses for the liberal interventionist , or welfare , state : how can those with the responsibility for carrying out the functions of government be controlled — in this case by a political leadership consisting of dedicated and ideologically sound revolutionaries ? |
| 15 | In Chapter 3 of Allegories of Reading de Man focuses on an episode from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in which Marcel reflects upon the virtues of reading as a retreat from the outside world . |
| 16 | It is the mystery which Marcel explores throughout the course of the novel , the intuition which he finally learns to understand and use , the revelation , ultimately , the revelation of his distinctive vocation as an artist . |
| 17 | In January 1875 Huxley spoke of the recent work on the ship and its relevance to geology , he was particularly interested in the way in which debris accumulates at the bottom of the sea because this would help in the interpretation of fossils . |
| 18 | There are various essential tools which Nancy uses for the success of the finished work , ‘ It 's like baking a cake , ’ she says , ‘ you just follow the recipe ! ’ |
| 19 | It will be useful in conclusion to look at some incidents which illuminate the way in which symbolism operates in the religion . |
| 20 | That is , the parallelisms and symmetries which poetry manifests at the level of verbal form automatically cause the reader to look for corresponding parallelisms and symmetries at the level of meaning . |
| 21 | By a curious twist of fate , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , Nizan 's account of his own journey to a third world colonial country in 1926–27 , a journey which Sartre pinpoints as the moment when their student friendship began to end , was written at the height of a momentous third-world revolutionary struggle . |
| 22 | It is highly significant that the two texts which Sartre chooses for the most part to ignore are L's Chiens de garde and Le Cheval de Troie , the two texts where Nizan 's communist party allegiances are most clearly visible . |
| 23 | The magazine BOMB , no. 5 , 1983 , includes both a full-page black and white advertisement in which Sherman models Issey Miyake clothes , somewhat in the guise of a wrongly strung marionette , and — elsewhere in the magazine — a personal picture in which Sherman appears in the same clothes as an exotic , diva-like force . |
| 24 | Bank accounts known as NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts are used along with mirror accounts which record balances in the former . |
| 25 | First , take into consideration the way in which sound travels through the structure and through the air , then remember the rules of sound insulation : increased weight to stop sound travelling through the structure , and soft surfaces to prevent sound entering the structure . |
| 26 | The approach to meaning taken in this study , as mentioned in the Introduction , distinguishes between two states in which meaning exists in the human mind . |
| 27 | There is none of the variety which O'Brian provides through the intimate or casual conversations of Aubrey and Maturin : although circumstances allow Hornblower a little more than a restricted relationship with his loyal and devoted lieutenant Bush , it is never a Personal friendship . |
| 28 | The concern manifest in these novels with the status of fictional discourse and its relation to the discourses of ‘ truth ’ lays the ground for the examination of the place of the novel in contemporary society which Brooke-Rose undertakes in the Intercom Quartet . |
| 29 | These stones extend down the watercourse , over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump . |
| 30 | One of the reasons why Colnaghi 's wanted a presence in Paris and welcomed the opportunity to be at the Hotel Bristol is the attraction which Paris holds to the Japanese ; furthermore , a high occupancy rate at the Hotel Bristol is Japanese and I look forward to being able to meet this clientele . |