Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode confidently towards a nearby tent of clear plastic sheeting , over which the gaudy Chelonian flag fluttered limply at half mast in the moaning wind . |
| 2 | The declaration of trust referred to in the previous section should contain not only the trusts upon which the former matrimonial home is held but in addition clauses relating to : ( i ) Repairs — Outside trustees will particularly wish to ensure that they are under no obligation to see to the maintenance and repair of the property , and under no liability in respect of lack of maintenance and repair ( see p95 ) . |
| 3 | I still wonder what happened to the paper produced by the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) , which the former Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley , threw into her waste paper basket with what oaths and cries we shall never know . |
| 4 | UN-imposed sanctions on the FRY , in which the former Yugoslav republics also joined , came into force on June 1 [ see p. 38918 ] . |
| 5 | Australian Test umpire Peter McConnell is suing the Daily Telegraph Mirror for damages over an article by Sunil Gavaskar in which the former Indian batsman made comments in some of the umpiring decisions in the Sydney Test , in which McConnell and Steve Randell officiated . |
| 6 | Though savage rites might be interesting and even valuable , their greatest value was that , in showing the importance of ritual in a society , they pointed towards the place which the higher Christian rituals should have in his own society . |
| 7 | Charles DiBona , president of the American Petroleum Institute , claimed the tax would raise US prices for petrol and jet fuel by ten to 15 cents a gallon because of the uneven way in which the higher crude cost would be passed through the refinery product stream . |
| 8 | The symbol is representative of the essential fabric upon which the higher Indian mentality is woven . |
| 9 | This is the ultimate overall analysis of the Northern Vasari , Van Mander 's crucially important Book on Picturing , published in 1604 , on which the entire modern canon of fifteenth- and sixteenth- century Northern art was based . |
| 10 | Frankly some of us actually wanted that to be a staff for No. 10 , for the Prime Minister , rather more like today 's Policy Unit which the present Prime Minister has in No. 10 , and less a general body to serve all the Cabinet . |
| 11 | It also reacted strongly to the proposal of a white veto over CODESA decisions , which , it said , " smacks of the very precept of racism on which the present unjust order is based " . |
| 12 | The result of this stage of the process is a large number of small units which the remaining young bachelors will be unable to enter . |
| 13 | Maximum operating frequency was 14.2GHz at which the minimum required input power was 8.3dBm . |
| 14 | The capacity of the ruling class to adapt to these haphazard destabilising phenomena is another essential element in their control and is another way in which the rational long-term approach of the elite contrasts with the more short-term sporadic characteristics of the majority . |
| 15 | The story of solon started with a phytochemical investigation of the oriental medicinal plant Sophora subprostrata from which the ancient Chinese drug guangdougen , used in traditional medicine for the treatment of digestive disorders , is prepared . |
| 16 | In subsequent years , students of Sanskrit continue their study of language and also read Sanskrit texts , particularly in those fields in which the ancient Indian writers excelled , such as philosophy , poetry , drama and linguistics . |
| 17 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |
| 18 | What we almost certainly would do by such a devaluation process — from which the Labour Front Bench is now trying to distance itself — is to postpone decisions which industry would have to take in the end , anyway . |
| 19 | Installations , last seen on a major scale at the ‘ Metropolis ’ show in Berlin , have now reached dimensions that require spaces which the individual private collector simply does not have . |
| 20 | But does this observation not give us an insight into a deeper foundation on which the individual disciplinary culture is based , a foundation which is common to all disciplinary formations permitted entry into the academic community ? |
| 21 | Such history reveals the instability common to continental plate boundaries , from China to Turkey , and can bridge the scientific investigation of the present and the aeons of geological history , in which the individual tectonic event becomes lost . |
| 22 | This is particularly relevant to conditions such as arthritis , to which the traditional medical response is to prescribe pain-killers which , whilst relieving pain temporarily , do not pretend to treat the causes of the disease itself . |
| 23 | They met in her lounge , and Maria 's tilted smile faltered and then faded as she saw Luke 's expression , the glittering hostility with which the dark grey eyes swept the vivid marigold colour of her short tight skirt and her creamy blouse trimmed with handmade lace . |
| 24 | There are two fundamental ways in which the effective semantic contribution of a word form may vary under the influence of different contexts . |
| 25 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 26 | Many industrial mechanisms will result in a geometric arrangement in which the required final positioning or output can be achieved by many different states of the mechanism . |
| 27 | The aim clearly was to bring the masses into accord with the perceived notions of naturalness and stability that the bourgeoisie adhered to , and to which the lower middle classes aspired . |
| 28 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 29 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 30 | The ease with which the dissolved high-pressure gases can escape from Hawaiian magmas leads to some very spectacular eruptions . |