Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [vb pp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 2 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 3 | A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course . |
| 4 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 5 | A reset button is also provided , which is pressed if the charging light fails to illuminate . |
| 6 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 7 | To test the possibility that the axons normally display a glial mitogen on their surface ( as has been suggested for axons in the peripheral nervous system ( PNS ) ) , which is lost when the axons degenerate and are phagocytosed after transection , we studied the effect of transection on mitosis in postnatal optic nerves of C57B1/6 and C57B1/6-WLD mice . |
| 8 | A term used in psychology , meaning the form which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole . |
| 9 | So the fact that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , and hence that the heat which is perceived and the bodily sensation can not be alike , can not constitute a proof that we are not justified in attributing heat and cold to material things . |
| 10 | The traveller in Philips 's poem delights in a magical illusion , a pleasing unreality , which is mourned when the ice falls away . |
| 11 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 12 | Example 1 shows the incident log file which is produced when the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE is called by user USER 1 with invalid data . |
| 13 | Modules under development have an appended letter ( development code ) which is removed when the modules are approved ; e.g. development module 2.1A is approved as 2.1 . |
| 14 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 15 | When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering . |
| 16 | The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached . |
| 17 | The amount of preparation which is required before the program can be used is important . |
| 18 | For what 's left when the moment has passed , |
| 19 | The matrix therefore represents the cross references between what is seen and the constructs that come to be applied in making sense of the experience and , by recording these , it is able to illuminate something of a person 's way of thinking and responding . |
| 20 | He added that he wanted to avoid " the alarming imbalance in some schemes [ a reference to the German method — see above ] between what is collected and the ability to reprocess it " . |
| 21 | It also ignores the reality that school mathematics , both what is studied and the way that it is taught , is selected by groups within society from a vast range of possible topics and approaches . |
| 22 | However , too often the student strains to see what is written because the teacher has not considered how she is using the board . |
| 23 | Practically , design becomes the means whereby we can change ( transform ) society in accordance simultaneously with what is desired and the reality principle . |
| 24 | In this respect it looks as if some Latin American leaders and regimes may understand better what is needed than the more formal and even ossified democracies of the West . |
| 25 | Furthermore , Webb himself indicated that ‘ much of what is claimed as the progress of socialism might be equally well described as a merely empirical development from the principles of Canning , Peel , Bentham and Gladstone ’ . |
| 26 | Presumably slavery is what is meant when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the capture of villages and booty as a result of war . |
| 27 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |