Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It also wanted parts — for which it went to Unipart . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This would mean that the question of the law would depend on an examination of the processes of lawmaking to discover the extent to which it conforms to norms such as that of impartiality . |
| 8 | Its solution , a program called Win/U , goes into beta test next month , which it hopes to debut as a commercial product by the end of the year . |
| 9 | ‘ Private schools ’ has a narrow sense , now slightly archaic , in which it refers to schools run for profit by teacher-entrepreneurs ( a minority , especially at secondary level ) ; in this sense , the term ‘ private schools ’ is opposed to ‘ public schools ’ , which are not profit-making . |
| 10 | The poorwill evades this risk by hibernating in the crevice of a rock wall , which it returns to year after year . |
| 11 | AENS publishes a three-weekly bulletin , which it distributes to church and secular media in Asia and around the world . |
| 12 | Scientific management implicity recognizes the potential for conflict in the motivational power which it ascribes to rewards and punishments , but explicitly rejects the significance of conflict by isolating and dehumanizing the individual as someone whose activities can be integrated into the goals of the organization if those activities are scientifically analysed and objectively controlled ( Braverman 1974 ; Rose 1975 ; and Clegg and Dunkerley 1980 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A fundamental reason for the formation of a company as a form of business enterprise is the protection of limited liability which it affords to members . |
| 15 | Thus the Church , for all the opportunities which it gave to men to find new lives and lofty ideals , to transcend the limitations of the age , still , in its main structure , reflected the social organization of the world . |
| 16 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 17 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 18 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 19 | But I 'm still not over what it does to people and what they think of me because of it . |
| 20 | And what it takes to fits word together , to fit letters together . |
| 21 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 22 | ‘ If this film had already been made there would n't be so much confusion about what the Maastricht Treaty is and what it means to Britain , ’ said one of the film 's producers , as Mr Brandreth rehearsed his lines in front of the European Parliament in Brussels . |
| 23 | On such grounds as these he argued that the experience of the author and that of the reader must necessarily be different , that ‘ what a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author ’ ( Eliot 1955 : 130 ) . |
| 24 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |