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

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1 The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre .
2 In what is being seen as Lloyd 's ‘ Big Bang ’ , the change should allow the giant insurance operation to move in on a growing slice of business which it has found elusive .
3 In what is being seen as Lloyd 's ‘ Big Bang ’ , the change should allow the giant insurance operation to move in on a growing slice of business which it has found elusive .
4 Although a traffic function would remain , the car would be demoted from the position of priority which it had come to hold in most streets .
5 The clause must be sufficiently brought to the attention of visitors to the premises and must clearly cover the breach of duty which it seeks to exclude .
6 In 1858 he had moved from the Governorship of Kurland to a position in the Ministry of State Properties , an institution which had forsaken the sympathy for reform which it had displayed under Kiselev .
7 Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game .
8 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 ? ) .
9 Tokenism , as this ‘ women 's season ’ showed , can be useful in that as well as making a gesture towards ‘ minority ’ interest it at the same time betokened the absence of women 's film on television which it sought to undo .
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