Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [Wh det] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible .
2 The civilian contra leaders deprived of their posts in the reorganization described the move as a coup , and the 54-member RN assembly maintained that the original seven-member directorate which it had appointed should remain in charge of political decisions .
3 Both the Seller and the Purchaser shall each keep confidential and shall not without the prior consent in writing of the other disclose to any third party any technical or commercial information which it has acquired from the other as a result of discussions , negotiations and other communications between them relating to the goods and the Order .
4 The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction .
5 Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten .
6 Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions .
7 Quite rightly , the Labour Party did not wish to exaggerate the importance of a fringe political group which it had investigated in a detailed national survey , based upon a circular to the secretaries of its constituency organizations in 1934 .
8 This is because the barn is often the largest of the non-domestic buildings of the farmstead and the large volume which it encloses offers many options for the creation of a comfortable and characterful dwelling .
9 Especially if you follow a similar path every day , then getting your dog to pass a motion will be easier to achieve by building on the previous training which it has received in home surroundings .
10 It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface .
11 What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper .
12 For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war .
13 Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 .
14 With these resignations by Mahmut Alinak and Mahmut Uyanik the SHP now contributed only 70 seats to the ruling coalition which it had formed with the True Path Party ( DYP ) [ see also pp. 38739 ; 38873 ] .
15 A campaign based on petitions , letter-writings , and revelations of inadequacies and irregularities in the development 's plans , persuaded the government to reverse the initial approval which it had given to the scheme .
16 The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics .
17 Worst of all , the Sûreté was not averse to operating for ‘ reasons of state ’ beyond the terms of the law itself and tended to bring the legal and judicial system of the French administration into disrepute as hardly preferable to the arbitrary Chinese system which it had supplanted .
18 In bringing into play this powerful discourse on art and the eternal " qualities of the human spirit to justify the distinctiveness of English , the Report is able to recuperate the very history which it claims to transcend , by recourse to an essentialist and narrowly-based cultural history of the " English people " :
19 If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price
20 The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 .
21 Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military .
22 And finally Oxford Cheetah speedway stars have made a taped message which it 's hoped will bring a little boy out of a coma .
23 A complainant should establish with the Commission in advance whether it objects to disclosure of its complaint and the complainant should always be clear in advance as to any information which it wishes to remain confidential .
24 The Committee draws attention to any draft which it considers to raise a matter of political or legal importance .
25 This section briefly sketches some elements of a culturally constituted image of Semai reality , and the motivational context which it helps to define .
26 Smith contends that such expenditure is functional but contradictory : it serves the structural requirements of capitalism at home and abroad while at the same time destabilising the performance of the economic structure which it seeks to preserve in the long term .
27 Government was particularly anxious that neither group should retain the relative economic dominance which it had acquired during the colonial period , and exchange rate management was one means by which this dominance could be restrained .
28 As early as 1886 its legal sub-committee had drawn up a whole series of amendments to the criminal law which it wanted to see on the statute book .
29 On a simple view , the Treasury , as a government department , formulates the financial policy which it wishes to see pursued and the Bank of England decides upon the appropriate technical means of carrying out that policy and is responsible for putting it into effect .
30 Like transitional relief which it has replaced , the reduction scheme is intended to help people who have faced high increases in charges because of the introduction of the community charge .
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