Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 2 | Daylight and ordinary tungsten light do not mix together very well photographically ; on the other hand , fluorescent light is often used in kitchens and this mixes with daylight better than tungsten if ‘ daylight ’ tubes are in use , in which case set the camcorder white balance to the ‘ daylight ’ preset if you have the choice . |
| 3 | Those are some of the practical effects of compulsory competitive tendering in which ideology takes the place of practicality and common sense . |
| 4 | The first of these , the habituation of the unconditioned response consequent on repeated exposure , was discussed in Chapter 2 ; the second , the way in which exposure modifies the ability of an event to serve as a classically conditioned stimulus , was discussed in Chapters 3 and 4 . |
| 5 | The controls for the Legend comprise a volume control/pull pot , which coil taps the bridge humbucker , and a separate rotary which acts as a mid-range boost/cut . |
| 6 | There could also be a brief introduction on which direction to do the route ; and the eventual booklet should include information on how to get back ( ? by public transport ) to the starting point — this can , I imagine , be supplied by the Council . |
| 7 | As before this simply tells you in which direction to move the lace carriage to transfer the selected stitches . |
| 8 | Straight arrows show in which direction to move the lace carriage . |
| 9 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 10 | This provides a dress rehearsal for what could happen nationally after the next general election : a hung parliament in which Labour needs the support of the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government . |
| 11 | The gipsies care not which religion rules the day — encapsulated , they make clothes-pegs and then , make love . |
| 12 | A question for the middlemen is the choice of which side to put the rope . |
| 13 | The only change introduced was the criteria of which side gets the put-in after a stoppage . |
| 14 | Thus we find the same teaching in Hinduism , Buddhism , Zen , Taoism , the sacred book of Zoroastrianism and in Islam of which Sufism becomes the perfection . |
| 15 | The shutter — controls the duration of exposure Focus adjustment — alters lens-to-film distance View finder — Shows angular field of view Aperture stop — determines area through which light enters the camera |
| 16 | The new design , which Sun finished the week of November 16th , still has to be taped out and has yet to reach silicon . |
| 17 | For him the reworking of familiar images is not simply a matter of drawing attention to the way in which mass-reproduction numbs the optic nerves , by shocking the spectator with a moustached Mona Lisa , but rather , using a peculiar blend of both iconoclasm and a sort of wry homage , of investigating the power of certain images , particularly those which have national resonance . |
| 18 | Seventy per cent of coal shipped from Newcastle was London-bound , but half of the residue went to the two East Anglian ports of Yarmouth and King 's Lynn , from which corn formed the return cargo . |
| 19 | If this leaves the gripper too far from the desired point , the robot tries adjusting each joint a little in turn to see which adjustment moves the torch 's image most quickly towards the point I. It selects the most significant joint and keeps moving this one until the torch 's image is as close as it can get to I ; then it tries adjusting another joint , and so on , until the gripper is close enough . |
| 20 | Have the ‘ sensations ’ to which Mill refers the character of universals , or the character of particulars ? |
| 21 | There is the Ayer-Hare question , ‘ Why do we use the same colour-word in different situations ? ’ to which Mill gives the non-Ayer-Hare answer , ‘ Not because of resemblance in some respect , but because of mere resemblance ’ ; and there is the question , ‘ What does the colour-word connote ? ’ to which Mill gives the answer , ‘ The mere resemblance ’ . |
| 22 | In effect , the debtor nations of the world were unwittingly and unwillingly incorporated into Reagan 's confrontation with the USSR ; their increasingly despairing efforts to repay loans established the financial base from which rednose took the Soviets on . |
| 23 | It may mark time this year , not least because of the drop in production of the British Aerospace Jetstream 31 aircraft for which Hunting makes the interior . |
| 24 | Which angel announced the birth of Christ to the shepherds ? |
| 25 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 26 | Which group won the aeroplane ? |
| 27 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 28 | The angle at which sound strikes the slits greatly affects the strength in which it reaches the drum , so the grasshopper , by waving its legs in the air , can discover the direction from which a call is coming . |
| 29 | The delicate balance of the reef ecosystem relies upon this and cannibalism is an important means by which nature controls the number of fish populating coral reefs . |
| 30 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |