Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is analogous to the complexity of computers where the signals are essentially noughts and ones but the response depends on previous events . |
| 2 | All too often the change of conditions when the sale is made and the fish is taken home , is all that is needed finally to send the unfortunate creature to that great big goldfish bowl in the sky . |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess market value particularly in relation to goodwill ; much time can be spent in arguing about the measure of damages when the parties ought to simply concentrate on establishing whether or not the breach occurred . |
| 4 | ‘ One of our key objectives is to reduce unemployment in the heart of Bootle where the rate is especially high . ’ |
| 5 | In the case of ANLT however the number of parses suggested can be excessive ( e.g. ‘ I enter orders until the markets close ’ produced 4,848 different parses ) |
| 6 | Mobbs had returned to Britain from a post at the University of Zambia where the vice-chancellor , a Canadian , had imposed a course unit structure with four units per year , but no choice . |
| 7 | It is sensible therefore that the health departments should give priority for new schemes to areas such as the north west of England and the west of Scotland where the prevalence of dental caries remains high and where large water treatment works allow for economies of scale . |
| 8 | ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home . |
| 9 | Easy to defend , with its walls still existing , and the two rivers , and of course , with resources , with fuel and war effort , and the kind of buildings where the king could form a court . |
| 10 | Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label . |
| 11 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 12 | Formal objections are not invited at this consultation stage as a further period will be allowed for the submission of objections when the proposals are formally advertised . |
| 13 | The Lorne plateau , between Loch Awe and Oban in western Scotland , lies to the north-east of Kilmelford where the Lagalochan intrusive complex has been investigated for copper and gold . |
| 14 | Some very good examples of solution effects may be observed on the coast of Glamorgan where the Carboniferous Limestone emerges as the wavecut platform from beneath Liassic cliffs , for example near Nash Point . |
| 15 | And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound . |
| 16 | On Nov. 9 , FIS leaders threatened " to reject dialogue " with the government , accusing it of hindering the work of councils where the FIS had won a majority of seats in the June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 17 | At its southernmost end is the village of Gargrave where the river Aire , the Skipton — Kendal road , the Settle-Carlisle Railway and the Leeds-Liverpool canal all meet to travel among the low-lying valleys of the Aire and the Ribble . |
| 18 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 19 | the type of department where the student was registered did not always give a good indication of the research area being covered ; |
| 20 | To be ‘ ashore ’ the vessel must be out of the reach of the tides completely — see the Laid-up Type on the risk and statistics screens and the Polisy User Manual ( Claims ) , for a description of the type of mooring/location where the vessel should be laid-up . |
| 21 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , pupils should be helped to recognise that words with related meanings may have related spellings and that this can sometimes be an aid in the spelling of words where the sound alone does not provide sufficient information . |
| 22 | Finally , the emergence of pools where the fully-fledged candidates could be identified was raised . |
| 23 | The thrust of the ensuing analysis will be the attempt to disclose the process of mediation whereby the political and ideological history of a given period is produced and reproduced in three consecutive texts . |
| 24 | The very order implies understanding of the process of redemption whereby the Incarnation and Passion transform the lex talionis ( the law of retaliation ) of the Old Testament with the grace and love which are the means of recycling the waste products of sin . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most striking difference between the northern and southern islands is in the distribution of mountains where the high series of peaks ( averaging 550 m above sea level ) of north Harris and south Lewis have no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 26 | That set them off again , Harbury enthusiastically reciting the string of reasons why the police had questioned Tavett several times ; Oliver throwing in that Tavett might have known about it but Pascoe must have done it ; Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper ; Holly reminding him that Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch had found nothing to support that ; and Rosie hushing the clamour because her telephone was ringing . |
| 27 | The studies led to the revelation of reasons why the programme was less successful than it might have been . |
| 28 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |
| 29 | It was the sort of road where the pick of the surgeons and lawyers and import-export dealers made their homes . |
| 30 | It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes . |