Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 32 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 33 | The Group 's share of results of associated undertakings [ hereafter called associated companies ] is included in respect of companies in which the Group owns at least 20 per cent of the equity and over which it exerts significant influence . |
| 34 | The Court of Justice is composed of thirteen judges and four Advocates Generals , who guard the interpretation and application of the Treaties and EC laws , over which it has final authority . |
| 35 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 36 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 37 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 38 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 39 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 40 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 41 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 42 | A particular point of contention is likely to arise where a group claims that it was unaware of an intention to hold a march by a group to which it holds opposing views until some time within the notification period . |
| 43 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |
| 44 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 45 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 46 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 47 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 48 | If the BBC review degenerated into Tory revenge for what it considers long-standing bias ( a particular hobby-horse of Heseltine ) , then he will have failed . |
| 49 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 50 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 51 | AMERICAN scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognised aspect of the anti-viral effect of interferon , to be added to the already wide range of mechanisms by which it fights viral infections . |
| 52 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |