Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relaunched company was primarily concerned with exporting textiles , and in particular Indian cotton goods , which continued to be its main line of business throughout the century and a half in which it traded with India . |
| 2 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 3 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 4 | The computer , which it developed with Hitachi Microcomputer System Ltd , is $135,000 . |
| 5 | The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence , apart from the aeroplane , was a hare which it struck on landing . |
| 6 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 8 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 9 | It also wanted parts — for which it went to Unipart . |
| 10 | Colonialism had much the same impact on the traditional political systems with which it came into contact , especially those which were hierarchically organized for the purpose of a feudal mode of production . |
| 11 | In particular , they must have forgotten the acts of violence through which it came into being ; and to be a nation , its inhabitants have to have a will to be a nation . |
| 12 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 13 | And it has now won a record-breaking fourth consecutive term , the first for 150 years , despite failing to retain even the 44 per cent share of the vote on which it came to power in 1979 . |
| 14 | Even the poor law , in spite of the inconceivable hardships which it brought to individuals , and its disastrous social consequences in certain directions , gave a sense of security and well being which was new in England . |
| 15 | Despite the commercial success of this unit and the facility which it offered of training in a range of skills , places were limited and the site was inaccessible from the south of the district . |
| 16 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |
| 17 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 18 | Sony Corp has withdrawn its support of a joint venture desk-top publishing business company , Newscaster , which it formed with printing and publishing company Koei Group in 1988 . |
| 19 | Caird is sending shareholders an external environmental audit which it commissioned from consultants Mott MacDonald . |
| 20 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 21 | The validation arrangements used in the Development Programme are based on those devised by the Council for the small number of college-developed courses which it inherited from predecessor bodies . |
| 22 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 23 | Once the Allied powers had recognised the creation of a Czechoslovak state as one of their war aims , it was not long until that state came into existence , which it did in October 1918 . |
| 24 | For its text is clearly derived from Ayres for the Theatre , published in 1697 , in which it appeared without trumpet parts but with one or two tell-tale misprints . |
| 25 | However , despite the demands which it placed on subjects and researchers , it resulted in surprisingly complete and detailed records of work done . |
| 26 | Singapore is building on its base as the world 's biggest container port , which it won from Hong Kong two years ago , and is offering tax incentives to shipping companies which move there . |
| 27 | MFS Communications Co , formerly Metropolitan Fiber Systems , got its initial public offering — which it increased to 11m shares from a planned 8m , away at $20 a share , compared with the prospectus target of $17 to $19 . |
| 28 | In other words , John Finnegan advised on the value of the property for the period of 17 months during which it increased in value from £4.4m to £9.4m — or by £10,000 per day ! |
| 29 | Accordingly , in December 1988 , the Commission issued a proposal for a Directive on takeovers , which it amended in September 1990 . |
| 30 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |