Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the liberal Russian press , Moskovskiye novosti of July 19 commented that " the SC has been given powers which raise it above the government " ; and Kommersant also compared the newly empowered SC to the former communist party politburo , because of its potential power , its secrecy and its non-accountability . |
| 2 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
| 3 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 4 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 5 | Sorry , I think it 's worth noting some of the circumstances giving rise to Mrs Brown er committing the offences which bring her before the court today . |
| 6 | This helps the cancers form and maintain the blood vessels that nourish them , and which provide them with the routes through which they spread . |
| 7 | Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need . |
| 8 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 9 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 10 | As in previous examples , the problematic items in the source text are underlined and the items which replace them in the target text are highlighted in bold . |
| 11 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 12 | ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’ |
| 13 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 14 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 15 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 16 | There are many ways to learn about old age from older people , ways which put them into the ‘ expert ’ role . |
| 17 | In yesterday 's opening ceremony they wore one of the most striking two-piece outfits which put them in the running for the ‘ elegance ’ award for the best dressed team . |
| 18 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 19 | Flannelette was the cheapest warm clothing available , and even the banana-box crib that was usually recommended cost 1/ , with blankets and mattresses , 1/8d , which put it beyond the budgets of the poor . |
| 20 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 21 | At first our after-dinner conversation was on general matters but when Lady Francesca withdrew , throwing Benjamin a smile which cut me to the heart , Clinton soon brought matters to order . |
| 22 | It had a lethal edge now which cut her to the bone . |
| 23 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 24 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 25 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 26 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 27 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 28 | More than 3,000 people joined Government programmes and 504,056 receive help under a series of schemes which exclude them from the unemployment count . |
| 29 | Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp . |
| 30 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |