Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are continually being told by British Rail that how it spends its money depends on priorities . |
| 2 | It will trace how the city operated the different Housing Acts , how it developed its housing management policy , and how its schemes came to have the distinctive social characteristics which they possess . |
| 3 | Pearson — the publishing-to-oil conglomerate — gives a wide range of answers when asked how it cut its audit fees by 18% from £2.2m in 1990 to £1.8m in 1991 . |
| 4 | This could be a pivotal review as the direction of any government depends crucially on the level of its spending commitments and how it uses its resources . |
| 5 | Next time you 're outdoors and you spot a caterpillar , watch how it uses its legs and mouth to eat whole leaves systematically , strip by strip . |
| 6 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 7 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 8 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 9 | The photograph should be accompanied by a brief description of the window box and how it improves its surroundings . |
| 10 | This might appear to be a criticism of the school in how it undertook its appraisal , but one must question whether it was really in the school 's interests to produce an evaluation in which its weaknesses were openly admitted . |
| 11 | For most of us , the turkey is as traditional as mince pies , but the story of how it found its way on to the Christmas table is an interesting one . |
| 12 | To take but one example of overlap , the kinds of question that are routinely asked in media education can fruitfully be applied to literature : who is communicating with whom and why ; how the text has been produced and transmitted ; how it conveys its meaning . |
| 13 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc continued its foray into smaller sites last week when it launched its Series Office BOSS Branch Office SolutionS integrated hub . |
| 14 | At its sister hotel , L'Hotel , also in Toronto , $25,000 was saved in one year when it swapped its 40W fluorescent tubes for 30W tubes ; the Hotel Vancouver has installed a computer to monitor and control energy use throughout the building and received a $19,000 rebate from the power company in one month ; and the Hotel Macdonald , Alberta , is saving $1000 a month on waste collection . |
| 15 | what the dog does when it catches its tail |
| 16 | The line to Arkwright fell into decay , and appeared to be forgotten until early 1988 when it saw its final ‘ working ’ . |
| 17 | Intel Corp announced yesterday that it has begun shipping production versions of the Pentium microprocessor , but as the company already indicated , it will not be talking price until May , when it frees its customers to start announcing machines . |
| 18 | Intel Corp says it has begun shipping production versions of the Pentium microprocessor , but as the company already indicated , it will not be talking price until May , when it frees its customers to start announcing machines . |
| 19 | Its courtship of Mitel ended in tears last year when it sold its stake in the Canadian company at a loss of £120m ( $120m ) . |
| 20 | France Telecom said Spheris will be completed by the end of this year , when it receives its Minitel and Unix workstation functions and integrates the latest specifications , X.400-88 and X.500 . |
| 21 | The problem is an old one : Ford faced it in the 1920s when it shipped its mass-production methods across to old-fashioned , craft-based Europe . |
| 22 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 23 | Warning of the group 's problems came in August when it cancelled its dividend . |
| 24 | The organization nevertheless attracted 50,000 supporters to a rally in central Sofia on Jan. 14 when it presented its platform for the round table talks . |
| 25 | The party 's real attitude was shown clearly enough in the Conference of 1913 , when it reaffirmed its opposition to the payment of MPs ( another form of scarcely disguised class discrimination ) by an almost unanimous vote . |
| 26 | The House of Commons Social Services Committee acknowledged this in 1982 , when it concluded its investigation of flexible retirement policies by recommending that the limit of employment protection for women should be 65 . |
| 27 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 28 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 29 | The trail starts at Beacon Hill in Frodsham from where it makes its way south to Dunsdale Hollow and follows a cliff edge and wooded slopes to reach Woodhouse Hill Fort — an iron age encampment . |
| 30 | STRATEGIES FOR CORPORATE SUCCESS Survival in financial markets , where a company raises its capital , is achieved through success in the competitive markets where it makes its profits . |