Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the policy formation process is a largely uncontrolled one : on the whole , the government decides which groups it will consult or listen to and which it will ignore ; and empirical evidence shows what one would intuitively expect , namely that some groups are in a much better position to influence government than others . |
| 2 | The Commission stated that it was not at present in a position to indicate which measures it might propose to the Council in that report . |
| 3 | The club 's facing opposition from residents living near the site and a council , which says it would devastate a green belt area . |
| 4 | That might cause headaches at the likes of ICL , which says it 'll run Destiny on its DRS3000 boxes ( UX No 384 ) , whilst maintaining a Sun-compatible operating system on its DRS6000 Sparc range . |
| 5 | Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd 's $1,100m of long-term debt has come under scrutiny from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which says it may cut its triple-A ratings after the company changed its financing policy : Moody 's examination will focus on whether the change will significantly reduce the company 's debt protection measurements over time . |
| 6 | Labour , which says it will create a Greater London Authority to fill the hole left by the ‘ spiteful ’ destruction of the GLC , promises the new body will not be a re-creation of Mr Livingstone 's power-base , but a leaner , hungrier outfit . |
| 7 | → If you buy something which says it will do a particular job then it must be fit for the purpose . |
| 8 | Other support for XPG4 came from Amdahl Corp , DEC , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — which says it will deliver an XPG4 version of Open Desktop in the first quarter of next year — Mortice Kern Systems Inc , Sequent Computer Systems Inc , IBM Corp , Groupe Bull SA , HP and Uniplex Ltd — which also promised XPG4 compliance at the beginning of next year . |
| 9 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 10 | In a sector beset with intellectual arrogance which has a disturbing tendency to under-rate the value of the customer and blame poor audiences on the weaknesses of marketing rather than , as is more likely , on the weaknesses of the artistic offering , it was refreshing to find a company which had used marketing techniques successfully — and which claimed it would continue to do so . |
| 11 | This was seen as a reference to the attitude of China which indicated it might withdraw if Taiwan were admitted into the group . |
| 12 | The possibility of an opt out has concerned the county council which fears it could lose playing fields at the former Eston Lowfields School on Gillbrook 's campus . |
| 13 | The history of the generations which preceded the French Revolution almost as much as of that which followed it must be written in terms of warfare . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun . |
| 15 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 16 | Mode 1 or ‘ standby mode ’ left one machine idle , waiting for its partner — supporting all the users — to fall over and die , at which point it would cut in . |
| 17 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 18 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 19 | A previously harmful being may change and become a helpful spirit guide to an individual , at which point it will also become circumspect , if not fearful , in its relationship with humans . |
| 20 | Bismarck then announced that he would communicate this text to the newspapers , which meant it would be known in Paris by midnight and would : |
| 21 | The order to use Saddam 's cash was made by the UN Security Council which insisted it should also be used for reparations to Kuwait . |
| 22 | It is very effective , in that it can be used to cool an extinguish solid combustibles and flammable liquids , and systems which apply it can be made to do so over a limited ‘ volume ’ of the racking where the fire is i.e. the fire can be ‘ pin-pointed ’ . |
| 23 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 24 | In the discussion which follows it must be remembered that not all those who live in inner cities have problems or are poor . |
| 25 | In the discussion which follows it will be assumed that what is being referred to is a receiver appointed out of court . |
| 26 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 27 | The idea that femaleness is part of the definition of the word wife seems relatively reasonable ; but questions arise when one considers that — as we noted above — gender seems to be a conceptual component in many unrelated lexical items ; and that oppositions often function covertly as hierarchies , which means it may not be a neutral fact that this system represents women as the negative of men . |
| 28 | Oh what I 'll do when I 'm ready I 'll give you a bell which means it 'll be what ten , fifteen minutes from then to picking you up Oh that 's it Alright , see you bell in a bit , ciao |
| 29 | Though Mr Major called Taurus a dealing system , it is not : it is a paperless settlement system , which means it will be rather hard to put a stamp on anything . |
| 30 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |