Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 2 | But in the daytime our top balcony gave us a grandstand view of the arena in which the final events would take place . |
| 3 | He charges firstly that the present techniques fail to exploit the opportunity which interactive computing can offer . |
| 4 | Functionality has nothing to do with that ; all that different kinds of functionality do is affect the forms which relative autonomy takes . |
| 5 | The contracts which western utilities signed in the 1970s and 1980s to reprocess their nuclear waste have taken on a life of their own . |
| 6 | The terms and conditions of their engagement ( and many organisations are careful not to use the word " employment " ) are set out in special handbooks , or in the contracts which casual workers are required to sign , and these seek to make the parties ' lack of mutual obligation clear . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the key to short-termism can often be found in the contracts which senior executives and directors write for themselves , concentrating on achieving short-term profit objectives to sustain a share price ? |
| 8 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 9 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 10 | But no distinction can be drawn in Advaitin thought between Reality and the highest Self or Ātman , so the quest for Truth involves knowing the Self which also involves ahi sā for to injure or inflict deliberate violence on another is to violate the ātman which all men share . |
| 11 | It does not deal fully with the counter-examples which male parenting presents to its theory ; or with the fact that women , like men , have a large excess of genetic materials , and might do best by searching out new partners for each child . |
| 12 | And one composer in particular , a man called John Dunstable , had a profound influence on the direction which Continental music was going to take . |
| 13 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 14 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 15 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 16 | The former term simply describes the situation in which people live outside institutions ; the latter points to the support which such people may receive from others . |
| 17 | Regional pride , the growth of language and caste-based movements , suspicion of the Hindi-speaking north , have eroded the support which national parties used to enjoy . |
| 18 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 19 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 20 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 21 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 22 | There are some legal arrangements of queens on the board which this representation can not depict . |
| 23 | As then Chairman of Bell Line Steamers Ltd and a Director of the Bank of Scotland , he brought to the Board his wide experience of the business and commercial world . |
| 24 | This new approach is known as cognitive neuropsychology , and it attempts to explain the impairments which neuropsychological patients unfortunately experience within the vocabulary of cognitive psychology . |
| 25 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 26 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 27 | The benefits that actually count are the benefits to those genes that give the shell its protective properties . |
| 28 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 29 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , President of the National Agricultural Centre Rural Trust , opened a new Housing Development at Mareham Le Fen . |
| 30 | In the afternoon Her Royal Highness , Patron of The Butler Trust , visited HM Prison Leyhill , Wotton under Edge . |