Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality . |
| 2 | Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic . |
| 3 | Under the Acts of Parliament ( Commencement ) Act 1793 , an Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent unless otherwise provided , with effect from the last moment of the previous day . |
| 4 | The probable evolution of Hurst Castle Spit is shown in Fig. 8.26 , from which it can be seen that , with the wearing back of the coast from A to C , the spit will occupy successively the positions AA' , BB' and CC' , the last being its present position , in which it preserves the recurved ends of former stages . |
| 5 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
| 6 | Perhaps the human race is beset by problems which it lacks the moral capital to resolve . |
| 7 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 8 | Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) . |
| 9 | Prefabricated fibreglass pools , pool-liners and traditional concrete can all yield a first-class formal water feature , for this aspect of the design merely affects the surface , the shape that the pool takes and , to a lesser extent , the manner in which it adjoins the surrounding garden . |
| 10 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) The magnetic field in the disk and its coupling to the coronal gas above and below the plane may grow in strength to the point at which it destabilizes the planar flow . |
| 13 | This should effectively see off any disease which it appears the Regal Tang is suffering from . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 15 | The X Business Group is going to throw what it calls the first industry conference for X Windows , GUE and client/server technology June 7-8 , just before Xhibition , at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose , California . |
| 16 | The National Children 's Home says many ca n't even afford basic necessities like food and clothing , It 's calling for immediate government action to help what it calls The Lost Generation |
| 17 | The additions include what it calls the fastest volume desktop on the market , the high-end Model 512MP , as well as the industry 's lowest cost multiprocessor , the new Model 402MP . |
| 18 | The additions include what it calls the fastest volume desktop on the market , the high-end Model 512MP , as well as the industry 's lowest cost multiprocessor , the new Model 402MP . |
| 19 | The exhibition , mounted until Sunday by the Cypriot government , aims to make propaganda over what it calls the cultural devastation of the Turkish sector since the invasion — a claim disputed by the Turks . |
| 20 | It is scarcely surprising that when the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries examined this problem it found a ‘ lack of clarity and certainty and purpose ’ among what it called the sponsoring government departments . |
| 21 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |
| 22 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 23 | The Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , involving a 20-kilometre diversion of the Danube along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary , was to have been bilateral venture , but Hungary withdrew in 1989 because of what it considered the unjustifiable environment effect , including the pollution of drinking water and destruction of wetlands . |