Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 2 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 3 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 4 | Tandem Computers Inc , Cupertino is moving its Asian headquarters to Singapore from California later this month , specialising in telecommunications , banking and finance ; it already has a joint software company , Twin-Soft Asia Pte Ltd , with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd which it formed last year , and it is planning to launch a screen-based smart telephone that can access host computers using a telephone handset , a small display , a programmable microprocessor and a modem , in Singapore next month . |
| 5 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 6 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
| 7 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 8 | More generally , the Marre Committee was convinced by the evidence which it received that ignorance was a major cause of people not seeking legal advice when it was appropriate . |
| 9 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 10 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 11 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge . |
| 13 | Much of the rest of his life was dedicated to opposing British financial policy and the monetary straitjacket in which it placed British industry . |
| 14 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 15 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 16 | Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year . |
| 17 | Its own frequency plan , which it issued last year , seeks chunks of the spectrum 2.8 M Hz wide , instead of the 2.2 MHz sections it uses at the moment . |
| 18 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |
| 20 | But what it signified neither man knew . |
| 21 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 22 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |