Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps everyone who works with such old people needs a period of physical disability ( real or ‘ pretend ’ ) to see just what effort goes into the daily round and the strategies which are adopted the better to cope and to preserve independence . |
| 2 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 3 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |
| 4 | Immediately under the throne is an enclosure , surrounded by silver rails , in which are assembled the whole body of Omrahs , the Rajahs and the Ambassadors , all standing with their eyes bent downwards , and their hands crossed . |
| 5 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 6 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 7 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 8 | But limited partnerships are rare , private companies , which were sanctioned the next year by the Companies Act 198 , having proved more popular . |
| 9 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 10 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 11 | The officer turned away , returning a moment later with a clipboard to which were attached the preliminary , handwritten reports . |
| 12 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 13 | The lease contained the normal covenants for the payment of rent , full repairing covenants , a user covenant confined to the business of ‘ home improvement contractors , ’ and the usual qualified covenant against assignment , to which is appended the following proviso : |
| 14 | Something which is called the best of and at the same time this barrier , so again be aware . |
| 15 | A second-rank tensor can easily be constructed by contraction : which is called the Ricci tensor . |
| 16 | Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ? |
| 17 | It passes under a bridge , on the reverse of which is written the ominous words ‘ YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR ’ . |
| 18 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 19 | 9 There hovers in Working Class Childhood the ghostly presence of more decent and upright children , serving their time in the restriction of poverty and family solidarity : " the old defensive culture of poverty gave working class children … a sense of security which is denied the present generation … " |
| 20 | The divergence of tissue lineages preceding implantation segregates three precursor populations : one that will give rise to the trophoblast , another that generates extra-embryonic endoderm and a third , the epiblast ( embryonic ectoderm ) , from which is derived the entire fetus and the extra-embryonic mesoderm ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | The latter could be related to the impairment , by NSAID , of the gastric nucus layer , which is considered the natural habitat of H pylori organisms . |
| 22 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |
| 23 | The Society produces a Journal " Conquest " , in which is published the annual Paget Lecture sponsored by the Society , and regular Newsletters which are sent to all members free of charge . |
| 24 | In the detailed examination of the spatial organization of Tyneside , use will be made of the idea of ‘ Northern Tyneside ’ , by which is meant the metropolitan districts of Newcastle and North Tyneside together with the adjacent county districts of Blyth Valley and Castle Morpeth . |
| 25 | They argued that the basis of the national assessment system should be essentially formative , that is designed to contribute to learning and not simply summative , by which is meant the simple recording of acquired knowledge or skill . |
| 26 | However , some authors suggest that governmental elites , by which is meant the permanent officials within a government bureaucracy . |
| 27 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 28 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 29 | In 1907 , Sheaffer went one better and invented the lever filler , which was patented the following year . |
| 30 | He organised a demonstration on 19 September 1954 , out of which was born the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ) , a name which in the past the LPP had employed . |