Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is often political pressure on a company from the country in which it operates to allow a greater degree of control to be exercised by the country concerned . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 3 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 4 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 5 | Restrictions ( Clause 21 ) will commonly be sought in relation to four specific matters : ( 1 ) the nature of the work which it sought to prevent the outgoing partner from undertaking ; ( 2 ) the persons for whom it is sought to prevent the outgoing partner acting ; ( 3 ) the area over which the restrictions are to operate ; and ( 4 ) the solicitation of clients of the firm , whether directly by personal contact or indirectly by advertising . |
| 6 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 7 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 8 | The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party . |
| 9 | After jilting Touche Ross , with which it had planned a worldwide merger , it married its UK practice with the UK practice of Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 10 | Fortunately , City and Guilds has had considerable experience in this area which will be invaluable in ensuring that the NVQs which it awards represent a national standard of competence , wherever they are gained . |
| 11 | Finally , and most important of all , the Central Committee published a draft ‘ Platform ’ on the national question in August 1989 setting out the basis on which it proposed to conduct the long-promised plenum , which was now to be held in September . |
| 12 | In addition , the importance of a group 's work may be assessed by noting the extent to which it has influenced the overall structure of concepts . |
| 13 | The strong achievement orientation of Japanese society and the degree to which it has become a genuine educational meritocracy have led many to assume that this aim has been achieved . |
| 14 | Teesside Women has celebrated its first six months of existence , during which it has provided a wide range of meetings and workshops for any women who live , work or have an interest in the area . |
| 15 | The complications arise from the way in which it has to maintain an internal planning dynamic which cuts across the traditional demarcation lines of faculties and departments . |
| 16 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 17 | She would show him what it meant to rouse a sleeping volcano . |
| 18 | Its orders from the United Nations … shoot first , and ask questions later … if that 's what it takes to enforce the naval blockade of the former Yogoslavia . |
| 19 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 20 | The situation seems to be that those who want a car like J7 HPC will pay , within reason , what it takes to get a good one from a source they can trust . |
| 21 | Join a guided tour of the Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and learn about its history and that of the ground , as well as just what it takes to run a major sporting venue . |
| 22 | Haines , 50 , should certainly know exactly what it takes to run a multi-million-pound industry , having climbed through the ranks to become chairman of the United Sugar Merchants Association . |
| 23 | No-one knows better what it takes to make a championship-winning team . |
| 24 | The eye which seems able physically to perceive as it ‘ stares ’ but unable to appreciate what it sees links the modern hybrid , a world of complex cross-breeding inhabited by ‘ Chicago Semite Viennese ’ , with the most primitive , ‘ protozoic ’ level of life . |
| 25 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 26 | ‘ Think what it costs to boil a full pot of water . ’ |