Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] " 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 Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |
| 3 | With regard to his consecration , the only controversial question which it raised concerned his relationship with the archbishop of York who consecrated him , and this will be discussed below in the context of the Primacy . |
| 4 | Of these , only the first was part of PNP and it proved to be the most problematic , partly for administrative reasons and partly because of the delicacy of the issues of culture and status which it raised . |
| 5 | Each salmon remembers the precise taste of the waters in which it hatched , a flavour derived from the mix of minerals in its mud and the plants and animals that live in it . |
| 6 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 7 | ( a ) Hereditary peers The present House of Lords is the product of the union legislation of 1800 and the House which it replaced was created by the union legislation of 1706 . |
| 8 | The post-1974 pattern of local government throughout Britain appears substantially different from that which it replaced . |
| 9 | Set at 24.5 per cent ( 0.5 per cent below the sales tax which it replaced ) , the new tax had caused much controversy within the ruling coalition and in the country at large . |
| 10 | Like the Middle East Commandos from which the bulk of the unit originated , the SBS never quite obtained the recognition it deserved , being little known even within the theatre in which it spent most of the war . |
| 11 | A day did n't pass now during which it failed to occur to her that she had borne two congenital liars . |
| 12 | Recent reconnaissance has emphasized that this source was not merely remote from the centres which it served , but that it could be operated only under conditions of some rigour . |
| 13 | The local mission became the focal point of the deaf community which it served . |
| 14 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 15 | Yet they did have an important influence on the evolution of bargaining structure and the characteristic form which it assumed . |
| 16 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 17 | The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop , which it substituted for its proprietary GUI , to shorten the learning curve . |
| 18 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 19 | DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) . |
| 20 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 21 | On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day . |
| 22 | He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree ; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined . |
| 23 | The focus of change was organisational arrangements , in the sanguine belief that if the framework of the school was altered then the processes of education which it enshrined would also alter to support a strong definition of equality of opportunity . |
| 24 | The question of homage , on the contrary , was another matter : its significance lay not in the amount of service which it might subsequently furnish to the kings of France , but in the principle which it enshrined . |
| 25 | It is impossible to understand the significance of Channel Four if one has no comprehension of the context in which it developed . |
| 26 | The computer , which it developed with Hitachi Microcomputer System Ltd , is $135,000 . |
| 27 | And Bluestone Consulting Inc of Mount Laurel , New Jersey , also has a graphical user interface environment for character-based applications on show : ONYX , which it developed itself , brings a Motif-like look and feel to existing applications , requiring no prior knowledge of GUI programming , X or Motif , says the company . |
| 28 | Corollary is also working with Microsoft to port NT to its fully Symmetric Multiprocessor Integrated Logic ( SIMPL ) chipset and C-bus II architecture which also supports SCO MPX , which it developed , and SVR4.0 . |
| 29 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 30 | Indeed the lasting effect of this period is seen better in the political pressure groups — the Gay and Women 's Liberation movements — which it spawned than in the actual pop music of the time . |