Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 . |
| 2 | Only a year earlier , Wilson himself had denounced the legislation which made it a member . |
| 3 | As a result of these processes , madeira wine gained qualities which made it a rival of port and sherry . |
| 4 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 5 | The factors which made it a reality in the 1970s are a pool of cheap labour , new production processes and new communications methods . |
| 6 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 7 | A leader of the US Communist Party in New York from the late 1940s , he was imprisoned in 1953 for two years for violating the Smith Act , which made it a crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the Government . |
| 8 | But whatever the government 's motivation , the Official Secrets Act — a steamroller of an Act , as it then stood , which made it an offence to divulge almost anything of any kind ascertained in the course of official duties — was not used . |
| 9 | Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers , but as you know , we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham , which made it an offence to , in certain circumstances to kerb crawl , looking for prostitutes . |
| 10 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 11 | It had a long colonial veranda and a high cupola , while the terminus of the railway , Tank Road Station at the docks , had a tower which made it an aid to ships navigating the harbour . |
| 12 | Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East . |
| 13 | The most significant of these was Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , which made it the responsibility of an employee to show that an employer used practices adversely affecting women and minorities without any " business necessity " . |
| 14 | Despite minor errors the book has a style and a use of simile which make it a pleasure to read . |
| 15 | This is an example of an attempt to grapple with the issue of discontinuity from within a problematic which allows it no space . |
| 16 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 17 | The Sword of Justice is encrusted with ancient Dwarf Runes which give it the power of unswerving accuracy and deadly retribution . |
| 18 | The city itself needs no introduction for its beauty , theatres , galleries and restaurants , pubs and annual Festivals , which assures it the reputation of a truly international city . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , prices are unlikely to drop further : TransTools made the mistake of launching its first database at too low a price , which lost it the prestige Ollero feels it deserves . |
| 20 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht to the United Kingdom , which accords it the status of a Crown Colony ; UK sovereignty is disputed by Spain . |
| 21 | Perched high above the famous White Cliffs , this vast fortress commands the shortest Channel crossing to the Continent — a strategic position which earned it the title ‘ The Key of England ’ . |
| 22 | He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie . |
| 23 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 24 | Aden 's usefulness was also acknowledged in the 1962 Defence White Paper , which gave it the status of a base . |
| 25 | Opren , a drug for treating arthritis , received a product licence — which gave it the right to be marketed in the UK — in March 1980 from the then minister . |
| 26 | So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost . |
| 27 | About 85pc of the company 's product is sold overseas , a feat which won it the Queen 's Award for Export two years ago . |
| 28 | Well this boat 's fitted with the race pack which gives it a lot of the extra controls that you 'd expect on a larger sail boat . |
| 29 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 30 | There 's some really horrible strippers — which gives it the feel of a really grim hen party or stag night . |