Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see , we have to take an interest in everything which hinges on the strange case of Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 2 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 3 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 4 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 5 | In a sense the whole point of making a group protest , for example , is that you can actually display some strong feelings or other , and is n't the , the point achieving a balance between some acceptable way of maybe even physically showing your disapproval of something and something which goes over the boundaries , actually ends up with damage being done to people or property ? |
| 6 | Would you like a scrupulously faithful ‘ photographic ’ likeness or something which delves into the soul of the subject ? |
| 7 | The basis of the receiver 's duty set out above was initially considered to involve the extension of the common law of negligence to supplement equity , but the courts now treat it as something which flows from the nature in equity of the relationship between the mortgagee and mortgagor . |
| 8 | Tribunals accept that an employee can sometimes be fairly dismissed for declining to do something which falls outside the scope of his existing contract , for example if , without good cause , he refuses during a business emergency to help out when it was realistic to ask him to do so . |
| 9 | More recently it has meant developing a sex education practice for all youth workers which means avoiding heterosexual assumptions and presenting lesbianism as a positive option , something which sticks in the throat of many workers . |
| 10 | The assessment of the bidder 's capacity to run the target company is , in other words , something which lies within the range of the directors ' expertise . |
| 11 | This suggests that the modals differ from do auxiliary in involving a representation of the infinitive event , not as something whose real existence coincides with the present or past time-stretch expressed by the auxiliary , but as something which coincides with the modal only inasmuch as its existence as a potential is concerned . |
| 12 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 13 | A long shot is one which takes in the whole of a scene . |
| 14 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 15 | There is yet another story of hide and seek on these hills , but there is historical evidence for this one which dates from the autumn of 1536 . |
| 16 | The difference between a machine which responds to mere sound and one which responds to the spoken language is like the difference between the speaking clock and the operator in the telephone system . |
| 17 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 18 | A work in which the meaning is fully apparent at a literal level is normally easier than one which depends on the interpretation of extended metaphor , analogy , symbolism , and so on . |
| 19 | A colligative property is one which depends upon the number of particles of the solute but not on the nature of the solute . |
| 20 | It is rather one which results from the process of ‘ legal reading ’ , that is , the reading of the text against the background of ‘ the legal reader 's access to a store of specifically legal relevant contexts ’ ( Davies , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 22 | The historical development which the exhibition unfolds is one which begins with the female nude masquerading as history and moves on to the abandoning of these supplementary narratives in favour of the representation of the body for its own sake , for its intrinsic formal qualities and expressive potential . |
| 23 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 24 | The proposal to harmonize VAT rates is one which cuts across the UK 's wish to cling to its fiscal sovereignty . |
| 25 | Market orientation-a market-orientated organization is one which focuses on the needs of its customers . |
| 26 | The technical term is one which concentrates on the fact that any form of ranking constitutes a hierarchy . |
| 27 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 28 | It is true that the Ecclesiastical Court is not the only one which deals with the goods of dead men ; the executor or administrator may have to sue in the Common Law Courts to recover the claims or property of the deceased , and the deceased 's creditors can sue him there . |
| 29 | A fourth and less myopic perspective is one which deals with the functions of a service for the wider welfare system or for society as a whole . |
| 30 | Buy one which attaches to the wall with hooks . |