Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lower the prestige by which alone the white races can hope to govern and to guide . |
| 2 | But in the final analysis it is a question of political history , which only the political historians can resolve . |
| 3 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 4 | The great complexity of class struggles , of which only the merest sketch has been given in this example , is still not the only matter to be considered in assessing the role of social classes in political change . |
| 5 | Newcastle were always striving to keep the ball by those machine-like movements which only the cleverest exponents of the short-passing game can exhibit . |
| 6 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 7 | These items could be represented by twin reservoirs for which only the net flow relative to the remainder of the system would be measured . |
| 8 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 9 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 10 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
| 11 | These provisions , of which only the barest summary has been given here , were very complex and , together with the inevitable uncertainty as to when compensation would be paid and how much it should be , resulted in a general feeling of uncertainty and discontent which did not augur well for the scheme . |
| 12 | In judging a living thing , other imponderables also come into play , which only the trained eye of an experienced judge can correctly assess within the framework of the total picture . |
| 13 | Taken to its conclusion , this hypothesis prefigures the paradoxical consequence that the smaller business may find itself liable to pay compensation which only the larger business is realistically able to meet . |
| 14 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |
| 15 | We are in danger of talking ourselves into a deeper decline in which only the bad news is given attention . |
| 16 | There have been far too many cases of abuse in which local authorities have contrived a system of competitive tendering under which only the direct service organisation could win because special conditions were imposed . |
| 17 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 18 | To which perhaps the only reply is St Augustine 's lament : |
| 19 | Tony Benn , who acknowledges that ‘ Jim Callaghan … ran the Cabinet with considerable skill ’ , brought to the 1976 Cabinet a set of Cabinet minutes from August 1931 ‘ in which exactly the same discussion took place … to remind them that there was a history in this matter ’ . |
| 20 | around which once the leaf-green planet turned . |
| 21 | A very wise provision , under which practically the whole South Metropolitan system was laid with double track . |
| 22 | The butler , being a hospitable fellow , threw a huge party to which practically the whole population of the small town ( then even smaller ) was invited . |
| 23 | This , and the multiplication of that half-breed known as ministers of state , is a product of a political inflation which even the present Government has not attempted to control . |
| 24 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 25 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 26 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 27 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |
| 28 | ‘ If you had not been told otherwise , you might think it was all a terrific affectation — this old woman from the Dales with the luminescent skin , the saintly set of the features and the clothes from the pile which even the rag-and-bone man would probably not take … . |
| 29 | Niki loses six seconds to the sort of ill manners to which even the greatest drivers are subject . |
| 30 | No , she would not think of that — no , never that , and she began to wield her feather duster with such angry vigour that Dr Neil , coming in , was amused at her bright energy which even the ever-lasting drudgery which she performed could not dim . |