Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is usually a formal system of discounts , for advertisers spending over a certain level with the station , and perhaps even for early booking , and whenever a station has time to sell which it fears it might fail to dispose of it is possible for the buyer to negotiate on the price . |
| 2 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 3 | The video is a shoddy deal , though , with muffled sound and only lip service paid to the Mother Of All Rockumentaries from which it takes its title . |
| 4 | The association was founded in 1965 ( on 21 June , from which it takes its name ) , when some 80% of all school teachers staged a demonstration to protest against a new " Law of Retirements " , which increased by one third the period of service necessary to qualify for a pension . |
| 5 | A point which sprang to mind here to complicate the issue surrounds cheese which is made in several places , including the one after which it takes its name . |
| 6 | There are two courses open to the British government if it is to maintain its reputation , on which it prides itself , of honouring its commitments . |
| 7 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 8 | A mallee fowl on top of the mound in which it buries its egg . |
| 9 | The statutes from which it derives its powers are either public statutes or private statutes . |
| 10 | One , on the separate title page of the Metrical Psalms , has the motto ‘ God is my helper ’ and the device of a goose , from which it derives its nickname of the ‘ Goose ’ Bible . |
| 11 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
| 12 | It does this by drugging them with things which it persuades them to believe they want . |
| 13 | It is being widely acknowledged , in services for all client groups that to judge outcome in terms of reduced reliance on institutional care is an overly simple view of the issues , and that a whole service needs to be judged on the extent to which it uses its residential facilities appropriately , that is for those who really need it , and for an appropriate length of stay to meet their needs . |
| 14 | Its nose , its eyes are the things with which it guides itself and then the walking is described , the footprints . |
| 15 | The company has also announced a real-time version of X Window , which it says it is perfectly happy to licence to other interested parties . |
| 16 | The company has also announced a real-time version of X-Windows , which it says it is perfectly happy to licence to other interested parties . |
| 17 | Meiko also had a hand in developing Sun 's low-end Tsunami Sparc , which it says it 'll also be using when the thing arrives . |
| 18 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 19 | Both theories entail a shift of attention away from considerations of origin or cause to those of function or effect ; neither is as much interested in the ways in which language reflects reality , as in the ways in which it shapes our perception of things ; both attach central importance to the concepts of system and difference . |
| 20 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 21 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 22 | To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous and pays no tribute or attention to its good work and to the robust way in which it represents its interests and those of the industry . |
| 23 | Its power is determined by the degree to which it aids what that whole social structure reports as its desires . |
| 24 | Another way in which the new narrative extends the range of traditional realism is by re-creating modes of spoken speech , not for reasons of costumbrism or authenticity , but to portray a society through the way in which it expresses itself orally . |
| 25 | A second set of concerns is with the structuring of the organisation and the way in which it groups its activities . |
| 26 | However , the government initiative of 1984 , in which it commits itself to a policy of records of achievement for all pupils , states : |
| 27 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 28 | The RSPB goes to great lengths to research the topics in which it involves itself , so that people will take notice of what the Society says and does and treat its views with respect . |
| 29 | Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt . |
| 30 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |