Example sentences of "[Wh det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some argue that the horrors of Bosnia call to mind the Holocaust , to which a memorial museum in Washington has just been dedicated . |
| 2 | The environment in which a film is shown is important . |
| 3 | ‘ The context in which a film is viewed can determine much of an audience 's response , ’ Donal Sheehan adds , ‘ lesbian and gay film making is often aimed specifically at a lesbian and gay audience and is most effective when viewed in that context . ’ |
| 4 | The economic recession has caused European governments to take a fresh look at the extent to which a degree of interdependence in the past has been translated into a heavy dependence of the poorer areas on the richer north . |
| 5 | Such insecurity leads to ‘ escape attempts ’ or local utopias in which a degree of autonomy and identity can be secured . |
| 6 | The implications are , firstly , that civil society at whatever scale ( the ‘ community ’ scale as represented by Castells 's studies or the scale of the home as represented by Pahl and Saunders ) is for many people a setting within which a degree of identity can indeed emerge , albeit in complex and highly diverse ways . |
| 7 | Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept . |
| 8 | That relative advantage was enhanced after the passing of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act , which allowed States to pass ‘ Right-to-Work ’ legislation prohibiting unions from insisting on ‘ closed shops ’ at plants , even those at which a majority of the workers had voted in favour of union representation in collective bargaining ( on which see Clark , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 10 | They consider that the test of fairness in the Directive has similarities to the test of reasonableness to which a majority of the terms within the scope of the UCTA are subject . |
| 11 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 12 | There are two main ways in which a Christian 's mind can be affected by faulty presuppositions . |
| 13 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 14 | The element of parental responsibility is preserved by paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 under which a parent of a child who is the subject of an ESO commits an offence ( maximum fine £400 ) for failing to comply with any directions given by the supervisor . |
| 15 | In investigations of this type , it is unlikely to be acceptable for children to be subjected to endoscopy as a part of studies in which a parent is the index case . |
| 16 | Those families in which a parent died from an illness known in advance to be terminal seemed to be better able to respond to the needs of their children , and to prepare them for the loss with information and emotional support . |
| 17 | A s8 order may regulate the child 's residence , contact with any named individual and any other matters which a parent would normally decide ( see 8(d) below ) . |
| 18 | In addition , the local authority has the power to determine the extent to which a parent may exercise his or her parental responsibility but may only exercise this power where necessary to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s33(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) ) . |
| 19 | The Guidance says that where they intend " to limit the way in which a parent meets his responsibility this should be discussed with the parent and incorporated in the plan of arrangements for the child whilst in care so that it may be subject to periodic review " ( para 3.68 ) . |
| 20 | Other rights , duties , powers and responsibilities which a parent may have in relation to the child and his property under other legislation are also preserved while a care order is in force ( s33(9) ) . |
| 21 | So information obtained in the pursuit of welfare , with which a parent may wish to co-operate , may be used in the context of justice , where a parent may wish to dispute the facts and their interpretation . |
| 22 | The complete rifle ( wooden components ) made at Wolverton cost : butt — 2 cuts at 3d , stock — four cuts at 3d : total cost 1s 6d ( 7. ½p ) , which included sanding , for which a machine was specially adapted , and soaking in linseed oil . |
| 23 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 24 | In England these varied in scale from the magnificence of eighteenth-century Bath to quiet Tunbridge Wells on the Sussex borders , ‘ a place in which a lady however virtuous , yet for want of good conduct may as soon shipwreck her character as in any part of England ’ . |
| 25 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 26 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 27 | He should avoid sins for which a change of fortune may well be God 's punishment . |
| 28 | Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’ |
| 29 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 30 | Circumstances in which a change of name would be permitted would include marriage or the acquisition of a title . |