Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 2 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 3 | The London Midland region , however which has to run the trains , wants them in service as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | The BBC is a public-service network which has to balance the needs and tastes of all its viewers , cricket-lovers or otherwise . |
| 5 | In early September the Khmers Rouges had called on Akashi to resign as UNTAC chief , accusing him of wanting to " sacrifice the Cambodian people to the economic interests of Japan , which wants to have the markets of the Vietnamese expansionists " . |
| 6 | One factor that impedes that aim is the Hawaiian hunting lobby , which wants to keep the pigs as game animals and centrepieces of those Hawaiian barbecues , luaus . |
| 7 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 8 | Non-classical literature is an unpleasant , disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged . |
| 9 | These programs lack the lightness of touch that a paste-up program such as PageMaker has , they assemble the document according to a set of rules which tends to make the layouts a little rigid , but they certainly provide a tool that , in some cases , can challenge even the power of Ventura . |
| 10 | Much of the catechesis in Primary School is linked to events such as first reception of the sacraments , which tends to strengthen the bonds of home , school and parish . |
| 11 | However , the integral approach does tend to lead to an emphasis on the similarities of business and non-business financial reporting ; this is in contrast to the differential approach which tends to accept the dissimilarities as having equal importance . |
| 12 | That this relatively autonomous conjugal unit is supported by a familistic ideology , which stresses the importance of relationships between the spouses , and between parents and children , and which tends to equate the values of independence and privacy with this kind of family unit . |
| 13 | This is probably explained by the largely commodity-based nature of many hardware businesses , which tends to blur the differences between large and small companies , say Broadview 's researchers . |
| 14 | This bias is reflected within sociology , which tends to adopt the values of the wider society . |
| 15 | These two tendencies for electrons and ions to move away from Jupiter are opposed by the Jovian dipole field , which tends to contain the electrons and ions . |
| 16 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 17 | A spokesman for Durham constabulary said : ‘ Anything which aims to tackle the problems posed by solvent abuse has to be a good thing and would get our whole hearted support . ’ |
| 18 | Hartlepool Council is taking part in a crime audit organised by Newcastle University student Rebecca Walker and funded by the town 's Safer Cities initiative which aims to detail the costs of crime , and help plan a crime prevention strategy . |
| 19 | The printers have been designed to reflect Hewlett-Packard 's ‘ anywhere to anywhere ’ print strategy , which aims to accommodate the complexities of heterogeneous computing environments while keeping pace with users ' demands for speedier and more advanced printers . |
| 20 | He practises what he preaches , having spent the past two years actively involved in the East London Partnership , a programme which aims to regenerate the boroughs of Tower Hamlets , Hackney and Newham ( where Tate & Lyle has its headquarters ) . |
| 21 | Over the last 15 months it has undergone a complete refurbishment which aims to unravel the phenomena of time , space and astronomy through 12 new galleries . |
| 22 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 23 | Factor analysis of statements in the questionnaire derived from the earlier case study indicates that attitudes towards SSE may be classified under five headings : collegiality and openness , professionality ( which seems to reflect the ideals of the school self-evaluation movement ) and formality about which Solihull secondary teachers have firmly positive attitudes , and efficiency and threat and professional development about which they are neutral . |
| 24 | Because bargaining occurs at the margin there is a tendency in negotiating situations for each party to take the course of action which seems to minimize the disadvantages , rather than to maximize the gains . |
| 25 | An expert from L'Oréal will talk about what happens to skin as it gets older and explain how to keep up with its changing needs by choosing from the extensive Plénitude range , which helps to combat the signs of ageing . |
| 26 | And the central bank collects a premium for selling the option , which helps to offset the costs of intervention . |
| 27 | And even then the said imagination must be in some place heavily impregnated with magic , which helps to weaken the walls between the world of the seen and unseen . |
| 28 | Turner has also stressed the subversive character of the betwixt and between state of liminality which helps to explain the drives , inversions , and paradigms of the counter-cultural form , and which enhances the potential for the liminal journey to illuminate the postures and pedantic reactions of the dominant ideology to such periods of social upheaval . |
| 29 | But there may also be another process which helps to keep the trees and the clumps in good heart . |
| 30 | What is interesting for our purposes , however , is to highlight those factors that provide a common thread within this body of work and which serves to identify the writers as working within a tradition of liberalism . |