Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also welcomes the changes in VAT , which are clearly of benefit to commerce , and the measures to encourage prompt payment of VAT , the delays in which it says are a vital factor affecting a great number of firms . |
| 2 | And the history to which it relates is a patriarchal history . |
| 3 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 4 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 5 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 6 | On Aug. 24 the 13 parties of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Democratic Opposition condemned what it alleged was a recent army massacre of civilians , including some 12 schoolchildren , in Doba , in the south . |
| 7 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 8 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 9 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |
| 10 | Morden , Surrey-based Short Term Rental Systems Ltd can now offer UK customers what it reckons is a unique combined hardware and software personal computer rental service , thanks to a series of agreements with WordStar International Inc , Microsoft Corp , BitStream Inc and Lotus Development Corp : users are offered a combination of Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc machines ready-loaded with the software of their choice — an 80486 machine with colour monitor , inkjet printer , WordStar word processor and Lotus spreadsheet will cost £135 ; 24 hour support is also available from Bushey , Hertfordshire-based Professional Support Centre ; the service is aimed at ‘ Small-Office-Home-Office ’ users , large corporates wanting to hire machines for project work , and hotels , exhibition and conference organisers wishing to hire out facilities to clients ; rental , naturally , has been viewed with suspicion by software companies anxious about piracy — Short Term Rental has got round this by removing the installation commands from the software it rents so preventing users from copying . |
| 11 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |