Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [Wh det] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On learning of the information , the brokerage house sold a large stock position which it had built up in the client 's shares . |
| 2 | The government ordered the Army to intervene on Sept. 6 to end a strike by 40,000 telecommunication workers which it had declared illegal . |
| 3 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 4 | Bell says that at 250 MIPS , the illusive box will be faster than the old Multiflow systems which it continues to market , though at much reduced prices . |
| 5 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | In supporting the anti-crisis programme , the pact between the 10 Presidents nevertheless instructed the government to revise downwards some of the drastic retail price rises which it had introduced on April 2 . |
| 7 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 8 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 9 | Strikes and protests continued throughout December , obliging the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government to postpone the price liberalization programme which it had begun to implement in November [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 10 | J.H. Fabre , the famous French entomologist , describes how the mud-dauber wasp lays each of its eggs in separate mud cells which it has constructed , providing in each an advance supply of fresh food consisting of spiders paralysed by its sting . |
| 11 | Here the company has a certain range of manufacturing skills which it attempts to employ in the most productive manner . |
| 12 | The Attlee government baulked at local government reform by boundary revision , the Local Government Boundary Commission which it had set up , proving to be of short-lived duration . |
| 13 | The GAO report cites the instance of one storage tank which it estimated had leaked between 50,000 and 800,000 gallons of radioactive water over a ten-year period up to 1978 , against the operators ' reporting of 5,000 gallons . |
| 14 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 15 | The Government will maintain resistance to farm reforms which it believes discriminate against large British concerns . |
| 16 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Chung , however , voiced suspicion over the North 's nuclear programme , pointing out that North Korea had not yet ratified the nuclear safeguard agreement which it had signed at the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) on Jan. 30 [ see p. 38721 ] , allowing for international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 18 | The Nauruan government , which was unhappy at being forced to pay A$21,000,000 for the phosphate facilities which it had inherited after independence from the British Phosphate Commissioners ( BPC — established by the governments of the Australia , New Zealand and United Kingdom ) never accepted that the matter had been settled . |