Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mental activity becomes , not the movement of a disembodied sprite anxiously wandering the corridors of the brain , but rather a mode of relating by which the organism contacts , interprets , and acts on its world . |
| 2 | Finite mind within the world also advances dialectically , from undifferentiated consciousness through objective awareness of things other than itself to the act of understanding in which the subject/object dichotomy is overcome . |
| 3 | Produce well-structured pieces of writing in which the relationships between successive paragraphs are helpfully signalled by appropriate connective words or phrases . |
| 4 | In other words , philosophy is just a certain type of writing in which the signifying element of language has been illusorily repressed in favour of the signified . |
| 5 | There were some , like Henry Armstrong at the end of the century , who urged a ‘ heuristic ’ method of teaching in which the pupil would be helped to make for himself the discoveries of Newton , Lavoisier and Faraday . |
| 6 | It was also embodied in the Hours of the Virgin that daily reminded the devout laity as well as religious , of an archetypal pattern of suffering through which the nature of redemption was manifested and which established the means by which it would be experienced . |
| 7 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |
| 8 | In the early days of the system , the majority of timarli were cavalrymen — the spahis — but during the seventeenth century the janissaries ( yeniçeri ) began to replace the spahis and the timar system was allowed to decay , being replaced by iltizam , a form of leasing under which the obligation to raise troops was replaced by a monetary payment . |
| 9 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |
| 10 | Nature printing is a very good example of a field of collecting in which the serious student can come to command a knowledge and expertise that the general bookseller is unlikely to match . |
| 11 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | It is also unusual in including material about peace-keeping operations , a testing form of soldiering in which the Canadian armed forces have become experts in the last four decades . |
| 13 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |
| 14 | On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development . |
| 15 | For our conclusions about the group would then be in every way prior to any conclusions about individuals ; we would have relied on principles of responsibility that draw their sense from a practice or way of thinking to which the personification is indispensable . |
| 16 | The basis for the continuum they put forward is was the level of processing to which the input is subjected . |
| 17 | Betrayed by one of the inner circle of disciples , Judas , he was arrested and , at passover-time probably in the year 30 of our era , executed by crucifixion — a method of killing in which the preceding torture is prolonged as long as possible , death being certain . |
| 18 | Third , the common feature of most routes will be the reliance on a rational reconstruction of a process of bargaining by which the common overriding goal of reaching an agreement leads the parties to compromise by accepting a less than perfect doctrine as the optimally realizable second best . |
| 19 | It was a form of bargaining in which the enforced departure of the customer placed all power in his hands . |