Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pron] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Are the phenomena which it discloses really necessary , in the sense of being an inevitable concomitant of social structures ?
2 It has begun to erode the banks which it built up over millennia .
3 The concepts which it assumes as self-evident , until persistent failure to solve a problem calls attention to them , appear to an outsider as strange metaphorical structures to be examined and re-examined as he learns to find his way around the conceptual scheme .
4 Pluralism as a description of where power lies in American cities can best be understood in the context of the studies which it set out to criticise elite theories of community power .
5 The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today .
6 She told an audience at the Royal Society , ‘ Let me confirm unequivocally … the United Kingdom will meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted to reduce acid emissions . ’
7 Speaking on March 22 , 1990 , to scientists who had worked on the project , the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised that her government would " meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted " to reduce emissions from power stations [ see pp. 36791-92 ] .
8 ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer .
9 ( e ) an acquisition by a parent company of the shares which it does not own in its subsidiary ( this might occur , for example , following a takeover offer where the compulsory sale procedures under s429 could not be used because there were insufficient acceptances — see para 15.5 below ) ;
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