Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 2 | This will be the case where an offer is made by one side which during the visit is accepted by the other . |
| 3 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 4 | So that I think the situation affecting the Greater York area is that there wis there is a requirement to accommodate within the ring part of the needs of the city , and on our best estimate that er I apologize for the word overspill , but it it is descriptive , is of the order of three thousand three hundred dwellings to be accommodated in the ring which after the needs of York . |
| 5 | An ancient monument is ‘ any scheduled monument ’ and ‘ any other monument which in the opinion of the secretary of state is of public interest by reason of the historic , architectural , traditional , artistic or archaeological interest attaching to it ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The council provides the site , I take care of their £400,000 investment which in the current economic climate they ca n't find , and the LTA gives me their £200,000 grant to run it . |
| 7 | Here are the real facts : Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly . |
| 8 | Those wanting to spot the more unusual wild flower would appreciate the Autumn Gentian which like the Chiltern Gentian has been successsfully cultivated here . |
| 9 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 10 | After the conclusion of the first hearing , it came to your Lordships ' attention that an examination of the proceedings in Parliament in 1976 which lead to the enactment of sections 61 and 63 might give a clear indication which of the two rival contentions represented the intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 11 | An Assured Shorthold Tenant may make an application to a Rent Assessment Committee for a determination of the rent which in the opinion of the Committee the landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain for the property . |
| 12 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 14 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |
| 15 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 16 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 17 | Any loss which at the time of making the contract the defendant could have predicted as likely ( or not unlikely ) to result from the breach of it . |
| 18 | They are not intended to suggest that any given product does no harm whatsoever to the environment . |
| 19 | We shall see in the next chapter how the combination of the new classical macroeconomics with the rational expectations hypothesis gave rise to the superneutrality of money : anticipated changes in the money supply have no effect whatsoever on the levels of output and employment . |
| 20 | By examining the details visible on surviving coins it is possible to identify coins struck from the same die or dies , for they will show no divergence whatsoever in the details of the designs ( fig. 6 ) . |
| 21 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 22 | As those versed in the Bible will know , the Gospel of Mark begins at the Temptations and contains no mention whatever of the birth of Jesus . |
| 23 | It is significant , however , that nowhere in what survives of his writings and teachings is there any mention whatever of the Virgin Birth — a glaring omission for an evangelist in the circumstances . |
| 24 | Whereas the discussion of strain and its measures involves kinematics only and may be conducted with no mention whatever of the forces that cause the deformation we must when considering stress involve ourselves in mechanics , that is , the nature of the forces operating on a system and the application of Newton 's laws ( we exclude in this discussion any relativistic effects ) . |
| 25 | I could discover no mention whatever of the fact that this conference was going on in its city erm but there was one mention of evolution . |
| 26 | There is no evidence that addictive disease arises from traumas of early childhood or that psycho-therapeutic techniques that explore the emotional and behavioural patterns established in these early years have any effect whatever in the understanding or treatment of addictive disease . |
| 27 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 28 | These constitute a form of indirect discrimination which in the case of turbans was fought successfully by a Sikh family under the terms of the 1976 Race Relations Act ( porn , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
| 30 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |