Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 2 | The Trotskyist movement reflected the traditions of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Socialist groups , from which it seemed to draw much of its inspiration and terminology . |
| 3 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 4 | It is presently working on a Pentium-upgradable board for its Expresso line of personal computers which it intends to have ready by the summer . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 6 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 7 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |