Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said that a prisoner one day received a batch of letters from Amnesty members , to which the prisoners were allowed to reply . |
| 6 | From the heavily wired enclosure , in which the prisoners were allowed from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. , two daring escapes were made . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The ensuing general election returned a House of Commons in which the reformers were in a large majority . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | For the scales on the ‘ objective ’ measuring devices used to derive the data upon which the laws are founded are not validated independently of subjective experience . |
| 15 | He describes as ‘ ominous ’ any ‘ suggestion that , out of ‘ respect ’ for the law we should refrain from any forthright criticism either of particular laws , or of the institutions of law enforcement or the governmental process by which the laws are made . ’ |
| 16 | The variety of contexts in which the laws are preserved and the chance survival of the precepts of Childebert I and Chlothar II show that the great law-books of the Merovingian kingdom , the Pactus Legis Salicae and the Lex Ribvaria , were only one part of the legal output of the period , and they suggest that the Merovingian kings legislated often . |
| 17 | It is also believed that the old Scandinavian rulers of the area held their annual ‘ folk mote ’ at which the laws were read to the assembled inhabitants at a large circular mound , now overgrown with trees , and known to the local people as Fox Hill , supposedly a corruption of Folks Hill . |
| 18 | It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ . |
| 19 | This style of writing focuses on facts rather than abstractions : this explains the differences in the views of Dicey and Jennings on the subject of sovereignty ; it is the reason for the disagreement between Dicey and Robson over whether or not we have administrative law ; and it is reflected in Willis 's argument against Hewart that the test of the existence of the ‘ new despotism ’ was to be found in the way in which the powers were actually used rather than how the form of the power cut across abstract constitutional principles . |
| 20 | The pashalik of Belgrade was one such province to which the janissaries were dispersed . |
| 21 | The four examples provided list hypothetical annual salaries from which the students are expected to calculate average monthly earnings — the salaries range from £3,144 per year to £10,152 per year . |
| 22 | Through a system of ‘ Citizen Schools ’ Highlander slowly helped establish a methodology of non-formal adult education in which the students were able to relate to the subject which they needed to learn — in this case the desire to learn to read for the purpose of being able to vote . |
| 23 | Shareholders do well from selling but not from buying : many mergers and takeovers fail to generate the gains in efficiency and thus cash flow on which the bids were based . |
| 24 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 25 | No fundamental changes are , therefore , proposed in the Bill , but we have taken the opportunity to make two improvements in the way in which the charges are levied . |
| 26 | The member must be clearly informed what the charges against him are , including the facts on which the charges are based , and given a proper opportunity to answer them . |
| 27 | Thirdly , the respect in which the courts are held gives their decisions an influence out of proportion to the number of cases they deal with . |
| 28 | However , the arguments which underlie the concept of justiciability can also be used to support the idea that in reviewing government decisions over which the courts are prepared to exercise control , they should only award remedies to aggrieved parties in cases where it can be said that the respondent has gone wrong in some fairly extreme way . |
| 29 | In England the courts are almost certain to take the view that the way taxes are spent is a political question which the courts are not the proper bodies to consider , and that no taxpayer has sufficient interest to raise this matter in court . |
| 30 | I do not see on what grounds it could be argued that an amendment on the subject of Capital Punishment is outside the scope of a comprehensive Bill amending the law relating to the methods by which the courts are empowered to deal with offenders . |