Example sentences of "[Wh det] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 2 | In a strategy pioneered by the affluent-worker study in Luton , which one might call the optimal-case approach , a site was chosen for the research which was not representative , nor claimed to be , but was particularly germane to the topic of the investigation . |
| 3 | Brancusi was almost a peasant when he arrived in Paris but he looked behind appearances at a more profound reality , which one might call the eternal reality in things . |
| 4 | As Morton ( 1978 ) pointed out , a third input system ( for recognising pictures ) is needed : this kind of picture recognition system , which one might call the pictogen system ( or , more strictly , the input pictogen system ) was first discussed by Seymour ( 1973 ) . |
| 5 | The other interesting mixed show this week is the Bluecoat Christmas Annual , in which one may sense the up-and-coming nature of work in all media by Liverpool artists . |
| 6 | And yet we have seen that the topography of Sligo ( to which one should add the topography of at least one part of London , Bedford Park ) is illuminating for the reader of Yeats . |
| 7 | At the end was an opening , now almost closed by the crowding trees and bushes , through which one could see the glimmer of the sea and the northernmost hill of the broch islet . |
| 8 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 9 | It 's not something on which one could fault the Victorians , for instance . ’ |
| 10 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 11 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |
| 12 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 13 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 14 | There is perhaps only one situation in which one can envisage the majority speaking , and it is not a voice which one wants to hear . |
| 15 | One problem in analysing party programmes derives from the fact that there is no unambiguous index by which one can assess the extent of " real " choice between them . |
| 16 | Identifying the need for a transformation , however , does not tell us which one will do the best job of achieving the five goals mentioned above : so far we have guides to diagnosis but not to cure . |
| 17 | It 's hard to say which one will take the most careful handling , especially in view of the fact that Calder is reported to be considering backing the building of the new radio station . |
| 18 | At this stage , what began as an expression of pure assimilation , in which anything could provide the basis for the child 's construction of images , turns increasingly into games with a much stronger accommodative element , as a genuine resemblance is required between the signifier and the signified , and the actual characteristics of the village or wedding observed must be taken into account . |
| 19 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
| 20 | If they are what one might call the ‘ young ’ elderly , who are still keeping afloat very happily in the mainstream of life and enjoying their independence , the problems are few . |
| 21 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that that would be what one might call the grand-daddy of them all ? ’ |
| 23 | This account is couched in computational terms , which are objective rather than subjective but which relate to what one might call the ‘ structure ’ of phenomenology . |
| 24 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |
| 25 | It has , however , been more popular with what one might call the " Gee-whizz " school of science popularisers , always out to stun the public with the weirdness of what they have to offer . |
| 26 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 27 | A slightly more complex form of the crime short story , and one which can pay considerable dividends in reader enjoyment , is what one might call the plain puzzle story with a solution coming from cunning detective work , both by the sleuth and the reader . |
| 28 | On a deeper level , it will be shown that the case for the traditional view of the Muftilik-essentially that it rose from a position of relative unimportance to become , in the time of Suleyman , the principal office in the learned hierarchy-rests largely on premises conditioned by what one might call the " hierarchical " viewpoint . |
| 29 | The anthropologist 's task is to map out this system , and , by using the tools of linguistic analysis , to draw up what one might call the grammar of the various cultures he encounters . |
| 30 | I had thought that there had been a really massive shift from what one might call the public sector into the private sector . |