Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 A term used by Mary Finocchiaro , which she defines as the natural out growth of a lesson . |
| 2 | She modelled these under the chandeliers in the grand marble foyer of one of the seven Stalin-gothic skyscrapers in Moscow , which she describes as ‘ a perfect example of Soviet pokazukha ( window-dressing ) . |
| 3 | Lady Miriam said the princess will unveil a special plaque to mark the opening of the new hospice , which she describes as a vital addition to health care facilities in the area . |
| 4 | She runs the advertising for Phileas Fogg Snacks , Babycham and Shell which she describes as an interesting mixture . |
| 5 | She heads an executive committee of about 20 and has herself instigated the Westminster meeting , which she describes as ‘ my baby ’ . |
| 6 | Her ‘ young ’ girls and sometimes ‘ young ’ men are aged between 65 and 99 and they look forward very much to her weekly class which she describes as something of a frolic ! |
| 7 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 8 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 9 | Which one appears as the From : address in your messages depends largely on the local arrangements of the site which receives them . |
| 10 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 11 | It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself . |
| 12 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 13 | There have been a number of significant turning points in the career of Sir Robert Haslam , which he describes as ‘ negative accidents ’ , but which turned out to have very positive results . |
| 14 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 15 | Tracks like ‘ Black Whip ’ continue the rap explorations with a starting rap from Aniff which he describes as ‘ stream of unconsciousness . |
| 16 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 17 | His practicality which has been so readily distilled into such words is drawn from a theology which he describes as ‘ a profound mystery ’ ( Eph. 5:32 ) . |
| 18 | When he returns to the US he will start work on his first film script , which he describes as an allegorical tale about ELVIS PRESLEY actually being alive . |
| 19 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 20 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
| 21 | The straight line from the first hiccough to the last gasp ’ , and human experience of time , which he describes as , and again I quote , ‘ A memory . |
| 22 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 23 | But logic , which he defines as the ‘ art of clear thinking ’ , can provide ‘ general precepts and rules , common to all branches of learning . |
| 24 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 25 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 26 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 27 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 28 | Hayzen 's preferred position is the ‘ Pursue ’ segment , which he interprets as the situation where prices are kept keen through absorbing revenue price increases ( relative to output prices ) in increased productivity . |
| 29 | The concept of rationality , which he promotes as a feature of modernizing societies , is tied to the process of communicative action rather than to the subjective and individualistic premises of much modern philosophy and social theory . |
| 30 | Six-hitting remains the one area in which he acts as a straightforward statistician — as co-ordinator of WCM 's annual award . |