Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 2 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 3 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 4 | The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival . |
| 5 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 6 | It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious . |
| 7 | Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls . |
| 8 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 9 | He advocated passive resistance to laws prohibiting Quaker worship , reasoning that mortal restraints on conscience were ineffective since force ‘ can reach no further than to that which is of the same nature with it ’ . |
| 10 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 11 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 12 | Unix , which is about the same age , just is n't as bullet-proof , it says . |
| 13 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 14 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 15 | Here guests are offered a breakfast buffet whilst the three-course dinner , with a choice of main course , is served in the Hotel Tyrol which is under the same management and stands immediately opposite . |
| 16 | Naturally , it must not be put on a square which is on the same row or file or diagonal as another piece . |
| 17 | It has close links with other University departments , with the British Geological Survey , which is on the same site , with Heriot-Watt University , with the Petroleum Science and Technology Institute , and with the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre at East Kilbride . |
| 18 | Travel by overnight train to Mattmat which is on the same latitude as Iceland and Alaska . |
| 19 | However , this does not preclude the firm from returning cash equivalent where the collateral matures ; ( 3 ) If the firm wishes to use the customer 's collateral to support its own ( or another person 's ) obligations : ( 4 ) If the firm holds or intends to hold client money with an approved bank which is in the same group as the firm . |