Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose there is a rule which says that the effectiveness of a synapse decreases whenever it causes the post-synaptic cell to fire . |
| 2 | ( Searle , 1980 , 1981 , and 1984 , Lect. 2 ) That such a thing could instantiate such a programme , as already remarked , necessarily is allowed by the proponents of causalism and functionalism. ( v ) To add something unfamiliar , functionalism will need to explain how it avoids the absurd conclusion that consciousness is , so to speak , not merely independent of biology , but entirely independent of all instantiations of programmes and the like , which is to say entirely independent of persons , computers , and all other spatio-temporal things . |
| 3 | Purging this of its state-centrism , we must ask why the capitalist global system relies on stability in the Third World and how it uses the transnational capitalist class , whether in the form of the triple alliance or some other grouping , to deliver this . |
| 4 | What is important is how IT serves the critical success factors of business across all sectors . ’ |
| 5 | It is the juxtaposition between these three strands which will influence not only the industrial and geographical pattern and form of MNE activity ; but how it affects the international allocation of resource and the world economic welfare . |
| 6 | Putting in a plug for his new book , Crashers , he described how it covers the major financial crashes in the world , starting with the 17th century tulip crash in the Netherlands , through to 30s banking crisis and the Deutschmark crash of the same period , to the stock market ‘ silver bubble ’ . |
| 7 | Reports persist that the final straw came when an emotional Mick Farren threw a typewriter through the windows , from whence it travelled the 21 floors to ground level at high speed , narrowly missing terrified pedestrians . |
| 8 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 9 | In others however it evokes the opposite impression of the event actually being realized , as in : ( 4 ) He managed to get free . |
| 10 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 11 | Slater echoed industry doubts about Intel 's commitment to the unsuccessful device , which Olivetti was going to use to build a workstation until the last minute when it scrapped the whole project in favour of DEC 's Alpha ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 12 | The Convention eventually came into force in September 1953 , when it received the necessary 10 ratifications . |
| 13 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 14 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 15 | Roseburn Bridge originally dates from 1899 , when it carried the Caledonian Railway from Slateford to West Granton . |
| 16 | According to the RUC , a police car was on routine patrol in the town 's High Street when it spotted the suspicious van around 10.35 am parked outside the Halifax building society . |
| 17 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 18 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 19 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 20 | The government broadly accepted the Report 's recommendations in July 1971 when it issued the long-awaited Circular 7/71 which also announced the prospect of some small expansion of art and design courses . |
| 21 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 22 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 23 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 24 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 25 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 26 | This can be seen in Portugal where it forms the karstic , touristic coast west of Estoril , with strange erosional shapes such as the Boca do Inferno ( Mouth of Hell ) . |
| 27 | The thin man was sent back along the ride to the point where it left the northern highway with orders to watch there , while Crane returned to patrol the width of forest between the camp and the Swamp . |
| 28 | The screen is non-operator driven which means that the Offline System will position the cursor where it requires the Offline Operator to enter information . |
| 29 | It has to extend its search one stage beyond the point where it finds the best path , in order to check that it is the best . |
| 30 | So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel . |