Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [Wh det] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst case of decline , that of Boston , was brought about by the decline of the wool trade , on the export of which it had grown , and its failure to secure any substantial share of cloth exports . |
| 2 | Only when they dropped or rattled something , the startled way they would look towards Moran , did the nervous tension of what it took to glide about so silently show . |
| 3 | Both the hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend were perhaps slightly unfair to the European Community in their assessment of what it has done . |
| 4 | The state lacks integrity because it must endorse principles to justify part of what it has done that it must reject to justify the rest . |
| 5 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 6 | Moreover , as I have remarked earlier , thinking around the question of what it means to understand cultures has hardly begun in multiculturalism , although there is a wealth of material and debate in cultural studies , social anthropology and philosophy upon which to draw ( cf. |
| 7 | BMP extension ) and by selecting WORDCNT.SSM from the list of macros so that it appears in the Run Macro box and the summary of what it does appears in the Description box . |
| 8 | We shall place this within a general discussion of what it means to represent ‘ a text ’ . |
| 9 | The creation of poetic truth is achieved only through the destruction of what it seeks to represent . |
| 10 | This expectation , from a rhetorical point of view , is pan of what it means to hold an attitude , because the attitude exists within the wider social context of explicit controversy . |
| 11 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 12 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |