Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the pressing of a large computer-linked key identified by a pattern that the chimpanzee has been trained to associate with the availability of bananas , is no more surprising than its ability to associate the presence of bananas with the shape of a banana plant on which the bananas are hidden from view . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not upset , ’ says the mother , thereby throwing the mind of the child into a confusion in which the choices are either to disbelieve the mother or the evidence of the child 's own perceptions . |
| 3 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 4 | In an efficient rotation , they follow a crop for which the soil was well manured so that the roots benefit from the earlier cultivation and nutrient residues in the ground . |
| 5 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 6 | On the single test day , subjects in the critical group ( group D in Fig. 4.5(a) ) received sessions in which the cues were presented in ‘ wrong ’ context . |
| 7 | The court 's highly controversial decision ( against which the Prosecutor-General was to appeal ) , and its finding that the Vichy regime had " never planned and practised a consistent anti-semitic ideology " and " at no time … had the purpose or the opportunity of imposing any kind of domination or conquering ideology " had important implications for the outstanding Bousquet and Papon cases [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] . |
| 8 | In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ . |
| 9 | He said that a prisoner one day received a batch of letters from Amnesty members , to which the prisoners were allowed to reply . |
| 10 | From the heavily wired enclosure , in which the prisoners were allowed from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. , two daring escapes were made . |
| 11 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 12 | The ensuing general election returned a House of Commons in which the reformers were in a large majority . |
| 13 | Schooling was no longer simply a purely autonomous activity , an esoteric if somewhat ruthless exercise in which the objective was to demonstrate superiority over one 's peers . |
| 14 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 15 | The skipper was up and was reading the state-of-the-art technology with which the Nicholson was refitted after every Boat Show . |
| 16 | Confiscating savings has long been a demand of the most reactionary groups who think that all private business is conducted by ‘ the mafia ’ , which the confiscation is supposed to hurt ( actually , the most criminalised businesses hold much of their savings in dollars and gold ) . |
| 17 | Clarke v. Clarke [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 115 , was an appeal from a county court , in which Form N79 as served on the contemnor contained no particulars of the findings upon which the committal was based and was only served on the contemnor 13 days after his committal . |
| 18 | If an error occurs in a procedure or function call , ERL will return the number of the calling line , not the number of the line in which the procedure/function is defined . |
| 19 | For many veterans of Operation Chariot , this was their first sight of the model on which the raid was planned . |
| 20 | The number of equity shares in issue on which the calculation is based is 34,320,000 ( 1990 — 34,320,000 ) . |
| 21 | The net interest accrued since the last ex dividend date is determined as follows : where AI = net accrued interest , N xc = number of days between the ex dividend date and the coupon payment date ( typically 37 days for UK government bonds ) , N xt = number of days between the ex dividend date and the date for which the calculation is being made . |
| 22 | In 1864 he published a book , The Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field , in which the equations were largely separated from these mechanical models ; in 1873 he published his Treatise , which put the whole of electricity and magnetism on a new footing . |
| 23 | The wind speeds did not change appreciably from Voyager 1 to Voyager 2 , and certainly seem to be more constant than the small features from which the speeds were obtained . |
| 24 | advise the bank/organisation if the cover in which the bank/organisation is interested is reduced or if any risk previously covered is restricted or cancelled ; |
| 25 | Most sufferers will have to spend a day or two in bed , and the feeling of malaise and depression with which the footballers are left will not necessarily be due to their team 's position in the league , but is an almost inevitable element of a severe bout of flu . |
| 26 | Evening rush-hour traffic in Liverpool city centre was halted during the alert , in which the gunman was spotted looking through the sights at potential targets . |
| 27 | When writing glissandos it is not necessary to give more than the first and last notes of the glissando , if the notes to which the harp is to be set are given . |
| 28 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 29 | this is the manner in which the consultants were engaged , we chose quality , expertise er above all else in doing this work , which is clearly going to be challenged from every day here on , so the issue of having an agreed finalized figure will cost early on , pay on the |
| 30 | The subject matter and the medium towards which the release is aimed are perhaps the two most important as to think about . |