Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in all of them homosexuality echoes Augustinian privation — the more pernicious for being deeply , inherently inadequate , a kind of non-being and inauthenticity : an inimical absence which provokes paranoia and on to which is projected the fear of difference inherent within sexual difference . |
| 2 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 3 | These meanings are considered to be organised in a cognitive system equivalent to a word memory or internal dictionary , which is called the lexicon . |
| 4 | These are forbidden by our law , which is called the Yasa , and so he killed both of them . |
| 5 | The well known city of Luzern , possibly one of the country 's greatest tourist attractions , lies at the head of the north-west arm , and the small town of Fluelen , gateway to the Gotthard Pass route , lies 38km ( 24 miles ) away at the end of the long south-east arm which is called the Urner Lake after the name of the Uri canton in which it lies . |
| 6 | Eh , you can start a game anywhere on this foot foot-line which is called the line , . |
| 7 | This relationship between frequency and speed , which is called the Doppler effect , is an everyday experience . |
| 8 | Each policeman is supplied with a police court attendance card , on which is recorded the date of all attendances at police court in connection with charges or summonses , and each entry has to be initialled by the officer in charge of the station . |
| 9 | Lacroix and Pirotte ( 1977 ) have proposed an alternative calculus which is named the domain calculus in which the fundamental base is that of a domain variable . |
| 10 | It is not only this informal witness to Jesus which is promised the aid of the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | On the one hand , ‘ family life ’ , by which is meant the life of the nuclear family , is much praised in government statements . |
| 12 | In this book the city is Tyneside and its environs by which is meant the areas of the four metropolitan districts of Newcastle , North Tyne side , Gates head and South Tyneside , together with over spill suburbs in South Northumberland and North Durham . |
| 13 | For that reality too may be reinterpreted philosophically as an illusion , a world of appearances , what Schopenhauer calls " the veil of maya " , interposed between ourselves and the ultimate reality — by which is meant the ground of being , the primordial oneness or unity of all individual things . |
| 14 | remains chief executive of Powder Coatings worldwide and chief executive of Cromadex , to which is added the UK and French general industrial businesses . |
| 15 | A thin layer of cooked cold porridge is spread in the bottom of the tub to which is added the microworm starter culture . |
| 16 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 17 | It is also an ambitious experiment to discover if humans , by living in a ‘ mini-Earth ’ under strictly controlled conditions , can discover ways in which mankind can live in harmony with the ecology of the real Earth , which is described the project as ‘ Biosphere 1 . ’ |
| 18 | There is a very large map at the Northamptonshire Record Office dated 1760 on which is marked the occupant of each premises in Brackley proper . |
| 19 | I 'm convinced that could be what 's affected the Rose Bowl 's profits recently . |
| 20 | We have what 's called the Enemy Aircraft Flight where the Luftwaffe tests captured British and American planes of every kind . |
| 21 | I think I know what 's caused the trouble . |
| 22 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 23 | Hypnosis takes place in what is called the Alpha state ( the subconscious mind ) . |
| 24 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 25 | If one had a particle with an energy above what is called the Planck energy , ten million million million GeV ( 1 followed by nineteen zeros ) , its mass would be so concentrated that it would cut itself off from the rest of the universe and form a little black hole . |
| 26 | Later , when the infant becomes capable of relating to whole objects , such as the mother instead of just the breast , it develops more integrative mechanisms in terms of what is called the depressive position . |
| 27 | In what is called the Coriolis effect , the northward moving sea water is pushed to its right , while the southward fresh water moves to its right . |
| 28 | The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard . |
| 29 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 30 | Roith is particularly proud of what is called the teaching company scheme . |