Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [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 | The infinitive 's relation to the modals is thus exactly parallel in the field of potentiality to that which it entertains with auxiliary do in the field of actuality . |
| 3 | In the language we have learnt to talk , its state of motion is a superposition of the state in which it passes through slit I and the state in which it passes through slit 2 . |
| 4 | In the language we have learnt to talk , its state of motion is a superposition of the state in which it passes through slit I and the state in which it passes through slit 2 . |
| 5 | At this point the rate at which iodine passes from CCl4 to water equals the rate at which it passes from water to CCl4. |
| 6 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 7 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 8 | The computer , which it developed with Hitachi Microcomputer System Ltd , is $135,000 . |
| 9 | The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence , apart from the aeroplane , was a hare which it struck on landing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The channel is the thin stream of sperms , or eggs , which it manufactures by meiosis . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 14 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 15 | The praying mantis has a single ear in the middle of its thorax which it uses for bat detection . |
| 16 | A rattlesnake possesses a powerful poison which it uses against prey and dangerous enemies . |
| 17 | It also wanted parts — for which it went to Unipart . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The government is now moving ahead with several new infrastructure projects , which it cites as evidence of its own — and China 's — commitment to the enclave . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But CIMA warned that the additional reporting burden which it represents in terms of cost and management time ‘ could lead to its acceptance being reduced ’ . |
| 26 | A working party under has produced a report reviewing the ACE fee collection system , as a result of which ACE is being encouraged to extend and deepen the support service which it offers to chambers . |
| 27 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 28 | Predominantly green , and differing from Blue-cheeked Bee-eater , with which it overlaps in Egypt and the Middle East , in its markedly smaller size and absence of chestnut on throat ; race in Israel has shorter central tail feathers and much more blue on face and throat than illustration . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |