Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh det] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 2 | Following disclosures to the press that the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) invests in trans-national companies whose activities it campaigns against , WWF has agreed to re-invest in " ethical and Green " companies . |
| 3 | In a traditional ‘ non-contact ’ competition without padding or restrictions , save that the opponents must never actually touch , each bout lasts roughly three minutes and is overseen by three judges whose job it is to study the accuracy and intended force of each blow . |
| 4 | inch by two and you had to tell these dockers what size it was and they 'd take it out of that particular stack . |
| 5 | The verderers appoint three agisters whose duty it is to supervise the animals on the forest commons , brand and mark them , collect the grazing fees for the verderers , and attend the Verderers ' Court . |
| 6 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 7 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 8 | The regrading of every qualified nurse in post has of course proved to be a colossal and traumatic exercise for both management ( acting under Department of Health directives ) and the nursing unions whose job it is to mediate on behalf of members . |
| 9 | The most important elements specifically missing from both of these formulations are the professional purveyors of the culture-ideology of consumerism , the mass media and promotional personnel whose task it is to sell the consumerist goals of the global capitalist system to the masses . |
| 10 | In addition , museum assistants or other personnel whose task it is to prepare the objects for visitors and to supervise their access to the collections may have more time for other tasks . |
| 11 | The development of radio and television , of new technologies to record speech , create new emphases whose significance it is as yet difficult to grasp . |
| 12 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |