Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose there is a rule which says that the effectiveness of a synapse decreases whenever it causes the post-synaptic cell to fire . |
| 2 | ( Searle , 1980 , 1981 , and 1984 , Lect. 2 ) That such a thing could instantiate such a programme , as already remarked , necessarily is allowed by the proponents of causalism and functionalism. ( v ) To add something unfamiliar , functionalism will need to explain how it avoids the absurd conclusion that consciousness is , so to speak , not merely independent of biology , but entirely independent of all instantiations of programmes and the like , which is to say entirely independent of persons , computers , and all other spatio-temporal things . |
| 3 | What is important is how IT serves the critical success factors of business across all sectors . ’ |
| 4 | It is the juxtaposition between these three strands which will influence not only the industrial and geographical pattern and form of MNE activity ; but how it affects the international allocation of resource and the world economic welfare . |
| 5 | Reports persist that the final straw came when an emotional Mick Farren threw a typewriter through the windows , from whence it travelled the 21 floors to ground level at high speed , narrowly missing terrified pedestrians . |
| 6 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 7 | In others however it evokes the opposite impression of the event actually being realized , as in : ( 4 ) He managed to get free . |
| 8 | Slater echoed industry doubts about Intel 's commitment to the unsuccessful device , which Olivetti was going to use to build a workstation until the last minute when it scrapped the whole project in favour of DEC 's Alpha ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 9 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 10 | Roseburn Bridge originally dates from 1899 , when it carried the Caledonian Railway from Slateford to West Granton . |
| 11 | According to the RUC , a police car was on routine patrol in the town 's High Street when it spotted the suspicious van around 10.35 am parked outside the Halifax building society . |
| 12 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 13 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 14 | The government broadly accepted the Report 's recommendations in July 1971 when it issued the long-awaited Circular 7/71 which also announced the prospect of some small expansion of art and design courses . |
| 15 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 16 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 17 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 18 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 19 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 20 | The thin man was sent back along the ride to the point where it left the northern highway with orders to watch there , while Crane returned to patrol the width of forest between the camp and the Swamp . |
| 21 | The screen is non-operator driven which means that the Offline System will position the cursor where it requires the Offline Operator to enter information . |
| 22 | It has to extend its search one stage beyond the point where it finds the best path , in order to check that it is the best . |
| 23 | So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel . |
| 24 | During ejaculation , the sperm is deposited into the vagina , after which it has to negotiate the cervix and the uterus , from where it enters the Fallopian tube . |
| 25 | The maximum depth of the trench will be at the point where it enters the main sewer ; otherwise the trenches will need to be deep enough to allow for a fall of the required gradient away from the house . |
| 26 | A crash behind her made her turn and she saw the enraged old man had hurled his soup dish at the far wall where it hit the pretty paper and ran in thin trickles down onto the pale-grey carpet . |
| 27 | Chantal flashed D'Arcy a reproving glance , but Roquelaure continued as though he had not heard : ‘ We must think where it leaves the French Government , Rober' . |
| 28 | Co-acting with the syllable con- in the passage above is the suggestive use of joie ( joir ) ( cf. the passage from Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , above , where it has the clear sense of sexual ecstasy ) , the equally suggestive emphasis on the " entering " of the castle by the knight , and the ambiguity of the past tense of avoir , ot , meaning either " there were " or " she had " . |
| 29 | Its discursive variety and complexity is one of the reasons why it imitates the social world with a verisimilitude unequalled by other literary forms . |
| 30 | The court concluded this part of its judgment by explaining why it regarded the discretionary powers of the trial judge as insufficient to safeguard against an abuse of the power of interrogation , and by stating , at p. 740 : |