Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a calm , modest , and patient man , which made it seem obvious that fly-fishing was his chosen hobby . |
| 2 | The road was bendy and twisty forming which made it look beautiful . |
| 3 | The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer . |
| 4 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 5 | Assuming QRAM is like QEMM386 , you can most likely add an Include statement to your QRAM line in CONFIG.SYS , which forces it to use this area of RAM . |
| 6 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 7 | Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland has commissioned a piece of 4GL software which will be unique to the firm in the Scottish legal world and which allows it to produce any report required either for management purposes or for clients . |
| 8 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 9 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 10 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 11 | The concert and the reception which followed it generated considerable interest in , as well as funds for , the Alumni Foundation . |
| 12 | The December 1989 coup attempt and the abortive revolts which followed it damaged international investor confidence in the Philippines . |
| 13 | Not content with this , a successful male inserts a chemical plug in the female which prevents other males mating with her and causes any male which sniffs it to become impotent for days . |
| 14 | The mountain goat is built primarily for steady , tireless climbing rather than speed and great agility : its short legs and short body , which allow it to place all four feet close together , also give it great stability on narrow , uneven ledges . |
| 15 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 16 | Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring ; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible . |
| 17 | For Herbert and his fellow Arminians , therefore , the ‘ mean ’ way of English Protestantism was its ‘ praise and glory ’ , which enabled it to avoid all the worst excesses of its rivals . |
| 18 | Which means it offers all of our legendary durability and support , but at a weight markedly less than all comparable competitive shoes . |
| 19 | During the holiday season the head office reports on the clubs on a weekly basis , which means it needs 52 reporting periods . |
| 20 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 21 | The process of the recognition of the self 's capacity to sin but also to engage with the strength of the leaping God which enables it to make good its losses , is ritually enacted in the sacrament of penance . |
| 22 | Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards . |
| 23 | The delay has infuriated the RSPB , which believes it has serious implications for a recovery programme to save the species . |
| 24 | Dominating the town as it does , the tower today has a gothic feel which makes it seem older than it really is . |
| 25 | The resins in these products can form a sticky coating on the hair , which makes it look dull , lank and lifeless . |
| 26 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 27 | The sentence reads , the Council instructs the executive committee , to take whatever steps it considers necessary to ensure that this Council shall employ at least underlined , the minimum legally required number of disabled people . |
| 28 | What did it feel like , this popular music , as every kind of male sexuality was wheeled out of the closet and onto the marketplace with a febrile flourish ? |
| 29 | It lets the acid in slowly and once the acids in what does it stop next ? |
| 30 | What does it involve other than sending out a few letters , keeping a record of what has been done , and putting some figures together at regular intervals ? |