Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tyres screamed and fought for grip and then the whole car did a little wiggle like the backside of a pouncing cat and stormed on , back in the direction from which it had come . |
| 2 | However much I might take refuge in the present in which it had not yet happened , there would be a moment when the present was the present in which it was happening . |
| 3 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 4 | The worst case of decline , that of Boston , was brought about by the decline of the wool trade , on the export of which it had grown , and its failure to secure any substantial share of cloth exports . |
| 5 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |
| 6 | The most striking feature about the Treaty of Rome , however , was the speed with which it had been reached . |
| 7 | Henceforward , members of the new body would be proud to call themselves hygienists , because they had rescued the concept from the degradation into which it had sunk during a ‘ materialistic age ’ . |
| 8 | A second slave began to ladle stewed meat onto the heaped k'va , and the aroma of the ch'min in which it had been cooked made his nostrils twitch . |
| 9 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |
| 10 | In the absence of other , countervailing forces , this externalization of Oedipal conflict would seriously threaten the whole psychological basis of culture ; it would threaten to undo all that millennia of civilization had achieved and would plunge humanity back into the savagery from which it had originally so painfully emerged . |
| 11 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 12 | The review may be evaluated generally by how effectively and efficiently it met the objectives set out in Document 1 , on the basis of which it had been negotiated . |
| 13 | Inevitably , government help undermined the bank 's ability to do the job for which it had been established , and in 1897 the Poles opened the new Land Purchase Bank . |
| 14 | Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 15 | The bird had thudded against the wallpaper and started to flop downwards and then swooped round and up , seeming ignorant of the opening through which it had entered . |
| 16 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 17 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 18 | He stood up and took his coat from the chair over which it had been casually thrown . |
| 19 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 20 | It allocated securities repurchase funds to commercial banks at a minimum 8.25 per cent , unchanged from the rate at which it had fed funds to the market over the last two weeks . |
| 21 | I waited until the Worm was back in there and then blocked up the hole through which it had come . |
| 22 | The division of classes , however , goes on increasing and it finally undermines the society in which it had arisen . |
| 23 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 24 | One might suppose that it would depend on all the complex features of the star from which it had formed — not only its mass and rate of rotation , but also the different densities of various parts of the star , and the complicated movements of the gases within the star . |
| 25 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 27 | In a year the shop would be no more , lorries would carry away the rubble to which it had been reduced , leaving a gap to be filled by yet another chain store . |
| 28 | As already indicated , the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. was the contractor for the construction of this line and with regard to the haste with which it had to be built , Brush Budget , their house magazine , had the following to say , ‘ For legal reasons it became necessary to build the line very quickly and the Brush Company laid ten miles of track in six weeks . |
| 29 | This court held that the board was required to give reasons for the way in which it had reached its award , and that in the absence of such reasons its award was prima facie irrational . |
| 30 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |