Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 2 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 3 | ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants . |
| 4 | ( a ) The prohibition in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule shall not apply to a business consisting of a management consultancy or a company secretarial service and which offers none of the services specified in that paragraph save the drafting of documents under sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( j ) and the giving of legal advice , provided such drafting or advice is ancillary to the main purpose of the business . |
| 5 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 6 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 7 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 8 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 9 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 10 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 11 | ( He gets up and ‘ accidently ’ scratches the record — which knocks it on the head for Vixen — and me , since we are reviewing the singles on the editor 's stereo . ) |
| 12 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 13 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 14 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 15 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 16 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 17 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 18 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 19 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | There is no absolute requirement for the terms to be printed on the document which incorporates them into the contract . |
| 21 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 22 | It is the fact of being the written form which establishes it as the standard . |
| 23 | In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world . |
| 24 | Generally this state is to do with basic physical facts surrounding women 's ability to give birth , which equates them with the animal side of Man 's state ; or with Nature rather than Culture . |
| 25 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 26 | The Yorkshire wool trade gave rise to a good deal of flamboyant building , which says something about the nature of Yorkshiremen as well as about the immense wealth of the industry . |
| 27 | There are some good points made here and there ; Bly points out that fathers in US sitcoms are often portrayed as incompetent , in comparison with their wives , which says something about the way the American man sees himself . |
| 28 | He says the children were singing ’ always look on the bright side of life ’ which says something for the spirit of the school . |
| 29 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 30 | Almost all Modigliani 's portraits have an air of mystery which raises them above the level of the mundane . |