Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Neville Duke 's P.1067 back at the airfield from which it made its record breaking run along the Sussex coast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A mallee fowl on top of the mound in which it buries its egg . |
| 8 | The statutes from which it derives its powers are either public statutes or private statutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
| 11 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 12 | An alternative draft platform for the forthcoming congress , drawn up at the Democratic Platform 's founding conference in January and from which it took its name [ see p. 37235 ] , was criticized for not attempting to make " a constructive contribution to the formulation of party strategy " and for concealing designs to turn the CPSU into a " shapeless association with complete freedom for factions and groupings , i.e. practically to dismantle it " . |
| 13 | The Slovene League of Communists ( LC ) , which at the end of January had plunged the federal League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) into crisis by abandoning the 14th extraordinary LCY congress [ see p. 37172 ] , on Feb. 4 held a party conference at which it renounced its links with the LCY . |
| 14 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 15 | The war in Eritrea , Tigre and elsewhere increasingly threatened the existence of the Ethiopian regime and provided the backdrop against which it launched its liberalization proposals in March 1990 [ see p. 37310 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A second set of concerns is with the structuring of the organisation and the way in which it groups its activities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The young greater honeyguide , which parasitises red-throated bee-eaters , has a hooked tip to its bill with which it pecks its nest mates to death . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal decided however that the defendant had really only contracted with one company within the group and that regarding the area in which it did its business a countrywide restraint was unreasonable . |
| 22 | His conception of the ideal institution is clearly at variance with the real competitive environment in which the BBC exists and from which it draws its sustenance . |
| 23 | While evidence that social support in some way short-circuits the illness response to stress is now considerable , the nature of the support and the way in which it provides its effect remain matters for dispute . |
| 24 | A further distinguishing feature of the Duval-Leroy is the way in which it has its feet firmly planted in the vineyards rather than in the cities of Reims or Épernay . |
| 25 | Purchase decisions may need substantial information flows , whilst a well organised enterprise will also keep up-to-date on the main trends , developments and events involving the companies from which it buys its inputs . |
| 26 | As soon as there is no longer a single master and no single slave , then the classic Hegelian reversal model on which Marxism depends and on which it bases its theory of revolution ( literally , an overturning ) is no longer adequate . |
| 27 | Two often-cited studies are illustrative of the problems of measuring support and assessing its timing , and therefore the mechanisms through which it exerts its effects . |
| 28 | Mitsubishi 's Nagoya works are already flat-out supplying Diamantes and the Dodge Stealth/Mitsubishi Starion GTO models with which it shares its platform and mechanicals . |
| 29 | The first edition comprised basic classes analysed into facets , using the colon as the notational device for synthesis ; the colon was therefore an integral feature of the scheme to which it gave its name . |
| 30 | It is also widely used throughout Persia and Afghanistan — although , ironically , not in the Persian town of Senneh from which it derived its name . |