Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 2 | Clearly , war is an instrument of policy , and the different forms which it takes are influenced by social and cultural conditions . |
| 3 | ( a ) Hereditary peers The present House of Lords is the product of the union legislation of 1800 and the House which it replaced was created by the union legislation of 1706 . |
| 4 | The republican newspaper says it will publish next week the names of informants and further details of the operations , which it said were conducted initially without the knowledge of the Bonn government . |
| 5 | The Royal College of Physicians attacked Mrs Bottomley 's failure to reach firm decisions on the four teaching hospitals under threat , which it said were left in limbo . |
| 6 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 7 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 8 | The report condemns recent changes in countryside protection policies , which it says were based on severely flawed statistics . |
| 9 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 10 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 11 | The first is the extent to which the shares to which it relates are paid up . |
| 12 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 13 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 14 | The supermarket firm , Gateway , is taking legal action against a Northampton firm which it alleges is selling fire-damaged Gateway foods . |
| 15 | Moreover , the degree of fraud which it engenders is astounding . |
| 16 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 17 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 18 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 19 | These therefore were the formations which it had been ruled were eligible for repatriation , and these correspond directly to the four remaining groups of the original six the " Ataman Group " referring to Domanov 's Cossacks , which included two Atamans , Domanov and Krasnov ; von Pannwitz 's 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps ; the " Res Units of Lt Gen Shkuro " , meaning Shkuro 's Cossack Training Unit ; and the " Caucasians , incl Mussulmen " , including Georgian and other Christians and Moslems from Azerbaidjan . |
| 20 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 21 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 22 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 23 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 24 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 25 | A second slave began to ladle stewed meat onto the heaped k'va , and the aroma of the ch'min in which it had been cooked made his nostrils twitch . |
| 26 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 27 | First , an animal might direct altruistic acts towards individuals with which it had been raised ; in most cases this would have the effect of directing the acts towards relatives . |
| 28 | C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised . |
| 29 | The most striking feature about the Treaty of Rome , however , was the speed with which it had been reached . |
| 30 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |