Example sentences of "[Wh det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ . |
| 2 | It seemed a reasonable bargain in which each superpower could exert restraint over its regional allies . |
| 3 | The proliferation index was also calculated separately for each of five compartments of equal size into which each crypt column was divided . |
| 4 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 5 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 6 | The yardstick by which each proposal is judged is its potential for success within C&P ; , or it may be passed on elsewhere in the group . |
| 7 | The reason for this , continued James , is that ‘ the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without precedent , and for which no adequate previous rule exists ’ . |
| 8 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 9 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 10 | Let us begin by considering how we might obtain a random sample ; that is , one in which each member of the population has the same chance of being chosen . |
| 11 | When an international organisation is unable to meet its liabilities , the Members are obliged to stand in , according to the amount by which each Member is assessed for contributions to the organisation 's budget . |
| 12 | the part which each member of the organisation is expected to perform ; and |
| 13 | His early life was regulated by strict discipline , his only contact with art being the family orchestra , to which each member contributed by playing a different instrument . |
| 14 | Instead of seeking a random sample from a population in which each member has a known , calculable and non-zero probability of inclusion , the quota sample proceeds by deliberately selecting a sample which reflects the known composition of the target population . |
| 15 | Or , more accurately , hierarchies , including those of class , race , and gender , and within each of which each subject is situated differently . |
| 16 | External anal sphincter function was investigated by : ( 1 ) the threshold of external anal sphincter contraction ( smallest volume of rectal distension causing a phasic sphincter contraction of at least 3 mm Hg ) , ( 2 ) maximum voluntary contraction ( mean of three trials of maximum voluntary squeezing lasting for five seconds ) , and ( 3 ) squeeze duration ( length of time during which each subject could voluntarily keep a pressure rise of 10 mm Hg in the lower anal canal balloon , mean of three trials ) . |
| 17 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 18 | The use of chronology in historical writing , or in literary history , gives the illusion that the whole operates by a uniform , continuous progression , a linear series in which each event takes its place . |
| 19 | In the words of an SR worker , ‘ The ‘ self-made ’ agitator spoke of that which each worker had in his head but , being less developed , was unable to verbalize . |
| 20 | Even if there existed a uniform nationwide trend in the birth and death rates of each population sub-group identified on the basis of sex , age , occupation , ethnic status and so on , local populations would still develop differently from one another , and from the ‘ national ’ trend , because these rates would be operating on the distinctive demographic structures which each locality has inherited from its past histories of fertility , mortality and migration . |
| 21 | It is created using a ’ hypernym index ’ , in which each word is listed with its hypernyms . |
| 22 | This template , called NORMAL.DOT , is a series of menu definitions , dialogue box settings and styles to which each Word document defaults in the absence of a customised template . |
| 23 | Another experiment carried out by Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 5 ) used a rapid serial visual presentation ( RSVP ) in which each word of a sentence is presented successively at an extremely rapid rate ( 16 words/second ) . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , a teacher working with the important English distinction between /i/ and /i : / might wright two columns of words on the board , such as : and then , as recognition drill , pronounce words randomly from the two columns , asking members of the class to identify the column from which each word is taken . |
| 25 | The predominance of a small minority of cases is further illustrated if we use two further measures of the extent of the coverage in addition to the gross number of reports , that of the number of days and the number of pages in which each rape case is featured . |
| 26 | How can he , in logic or in practice , sustain a position whereby he is asking the Soviet Union , as was , to dismantle its nuclear deterrents while he is embarking on a system in which each missile provides the equivalent of 80 Hiroshima bombs ? |
| 27 | The most striking aspect of the history of delinquency is the consistency with which each generation characterises the youth of the day and the way of life of twenty years previously . |
| 28 | An author who studied the American Indian sign system used for ritual story-telling reported that the sign language of Indians , of deaf people , and of everyone else ‘ constitute one language — the gesture speech of mankind , of which each system is a dialect ’ ( Mallery , 1881 ) . |
| 29 | We could thus highlight the problems faced by each system , and discuss the extent to which each system 's approach was influenced by its architecture . |
| 30 | We are interested in the conditions under which each system is able to reduce the search space , and the effect of these reductions on their performance . |