Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent . |
| 2 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 3 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 4 | He surmised that every bird possesses a form of template upon which it tries different notes until it finds the correct ones . |
| 5 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |
| 6 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 7 | The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals . |
| 8 | US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market . |
| 9 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 10 | The work in the Netherlands is therefore considered here with that of the Germanic Baltic group with which it has much in common . |
| 11 | Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 12 | There is a point beyond which it becomes impracticable to continue . |
| 13 | Third , and finally , while it is true that the impact of all policies must be subjected to careful scrutiny , it is clearly particularly important to give attention to what it feels like to be on the receiving end of social policy . |
| 14 | A particular point of contention is likely to arise where a group claims that it was unaware of an intention to hold a march by a group to which it holds opposing views until some time within the notification period . |
| 15 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 16 | We now have a colossal documentation of what it feels like to be in the margin . |
| 17 | Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed . |
| 18 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 19 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 20 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 21 | Like the Middle East Commandos from which the bulk of the unit originated , the SBS never quite obtained the recognition it deserved , being little known even within the theatre in which it spent most of the war . |
| 22 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 23 | It is , also , an agent for Cory Brothers ( part of the Powell Duffeyrn Group ) and Singapore 's National , Neptune Orient Line for which it offers dedicated Far Eastern container services . |
| 24 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 25 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 26 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 27 | If the BBC review degenerated into Tory revenge for what it considers long-standing bias ( a particular hobby-horse of Heseltine ) , then he will have failed . |
| 28 | There was an awkward pause during which it became clear that this hint was going to be ignored like all previous ones and then the Guider realised that the pause was going to continue . |
| 29 | The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund . |
| 30 | One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups . |