Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it could not in my judgment , be done simply by a document which itself refers to the contract , and I reject Mr Ritchie 's submission on this … |
| 2 | The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission . |
| 3 | Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim . |
| 4 | 1 A term used by Mary Finocchiaro , which she defines as the natural out growth of a lesson . |
| 5 | She has a health card , which she produces to the cops on demand . |
| 6 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 7 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , the LAD needs to contribute enough ( but no more than enough ) innate knowledge for the child to learn the grammar of a language from the utterances which she hears in the first four or five years of life . |
| 9 | These are intercalated with long nights of insomnia which she spends on the sofa with the radio and Herodotus , having fled her snoring lover Willy ( later Wally ) . |
| 10 | I 've spoken to right er and owes me a few favours and I 've said er would you consider her completing her training until the end of May middle of May which she does at the and then if she 's any good , take her on , providing she gets a driving licence . |
| 11 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 12 | It requires the teacher to demonstrate the significance which she places upon the children 's resources and judgements . |
| 13 | She is smaller than her brother , with a rich mane of chestnut hair which she wears to the waist . |
| 14 | The group , which she directs from the harpsichord , specialise in 18th Century music which they play on period instruments . |
| 15 | Margery Kempe finds the actual humanity of Christ 's life and death a pattern of living which transfigures the ordinary demands of daily life with a sense of the holy — an emotional engagement with the humanity of Christ which she shares with the " affective piety " of her age . |
| 16 | The difficulty is magnified when the sovereign is conceived as addressing ‘ the Commonwealth ’ comprising some countries which she rules on the advice of the respective ministers and other countries over which she does not reign at all . |
| 17 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 18 | In any case in which one penetrates beyond the directives or the rules to their underlying justifications one has to discount the independent weight of the rule or the directive as a reason for action . |
| 19 | The following are examples of the petty attempts at subversion which one finds in the old books on election law . |
| 20 | All the clarity and detail which Griffith managed to find is there , but there is also body and warmth which one remembers from the original 78s . |
| 21 | Which one appears as the From : address in your messages depends largely on the local arrangements of the site which receives them . |
| 22 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
| 23 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 24 | It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself . |
| 25 | There are poems to Rosa which he takes from the trash . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In ‘ The Fall of the House of Usher ’ , Edgar Allan Poe invokes the fear of being shut in which he projects into the fear of SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT TONGUES , DIFFERENT TONES 67 shutting someone else in . |