Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Fifty Years , in the historian 's causal scheme , were the underlying cause of the war , which Thucydides saw as the process of Athenian aggrandizement which struck fear into Sparta . |
| 4 | But it was the spirit of Henley , with huge crowds enjoying amateur sport , presented with administrative finesse , which Keller took as the yardstick for the international circuit . |
| 5 | In Liverpool William Rathbone extracted figures from the muster roles which Clarkson used as the basis for the statistics on mortality , disease and desertion amongst seamen engaged in the slave trade and which apparently impressed the Privy Council committee . |
| 6 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 7 | The Communist Manifesto sets out unequivocally to destroy the very institutions which God created as the basis for the social order . |
| 8 | It may , however , be argued that there were deeper reasons for the relative weakness of African entrepreneurs at this time , that is , the absence of the kind of ‘ worldly asceticism ’ which Weber described as the key to European capitalism . |
| 9 | The final reading looks , as is popular , to the East in search of a more appropriate ‘ post-modernist ’ model than the bureaucracy which Clegg sees as the ‘ modern ’ form of organization . |
| 10 | Above all there was rank disbelief at the figure of 542,000 dead which Hitler gave as the total German losses for the whole war . |
| 11 | In the middle of October he staged a triumphant return to London and set about rebuilding his position , a process from which Gloucester emerged as the main beneficiary . |
| 12 | In the middle of October he staged a triumphant return to London and set about rebuilding his position , a process from which Gloucester emerged as the main beneficiary . |
| 13 | This ‘ success ’ prompted a further onslaught by senior ministers against what Baker described as the ‘ hysterical gossiping ’ among MPs about the leadership . |
| 14 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 15 | These formal devices enable cultural heritage to be maintained beyond the lives of single individuals and offset what Goody sees as the ephemeral nature of ‘ face-to-face ’ communication . |
| 16 | What Derrida describes as the ‘ double jeu ’ ( 1972c:14 ) of deconstruction is thus accomplished : the hierarchical relation between narrative theory and its object is reversed , and at the same time the subject-object relation is itself challenged , illustrating Lacan 's widely disseminated dictum ‘ il n'y a pas de métalanguage ’ ( 1966:813 ) . |
| 17 | The self-deception that we can , from our late twentieth-century perspective , in any way approximate to a genuinely eighteenth-century response to Mozart is only compounded by what Osborne sees as the false claims of the authenticity movement . |
| 18 | This is not the place to labour the points one by one , but the overall position is made clear by looking at what Fullan characterises as the difference between ‘ specific and generic capacity for change ’ . |
| 19 | Part of this sequence of attacks was a form of retaliation , this time for what Iran perceived as the provocative act of the initial invasion . |
| 20 | King 's head for funny business has him periodically indulge in what Lewis describes as the ‘ tactics of fear ’ and the latest example has been to publicly demean Maloney 's management of Lewis . |
| 21 | The RUC moved in and triggered what Farrell describes as the worst rioting since 1935 . |
| 22 | The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV . |
| 23 | The primary basis of UDC support , however , was what Morel described as the ‘ enthusiasm and spiritual driving power ’ of the ILP , together with the local structures of the trade union movement . |
| 24 | These points of conflict , suitably transmuted and projected beyond what McGahern describes as the relatively artless realms of ‘ fictionalised autobiography ’ , later found their way into novels such as ‘ The Leavetaking ’ and ‘ The Pornographer ’ with the latter , in particular , satirizing the moral hypocrisy evident in the Church/State position on sexuality . |
| 25 | A final pro-profit influence is what Herman describes as the ‘ subtle ideological impact ’ of ownership . |
| 26 | This had then opened up what Schweitzer described as the ‘ psychologising ’ approach to Jesus , which set out to explore his understanding of himself , tracing his awareness of God , his key ideas , even the development of his teaching through the career which ran from Galilee to Golgotha . |