Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case for using a Central Authority as a transmitting agency rests on the argument that the familiarity of its officers with the system of the Convention and with the practice of other countries would ensure that requests which it prepared or approved for transmission were in order and so would be handled expeditiously and without any need to refer a request back for clarification . |
| 2 | We have talked loosely about the original atmosphere of the Earth , and the way in which it affected and perhaps still affects life . |
| 3 | In France and Spain , and to a lesser extent in Britain , it was widely believed that the most important function of a fleet was not to seek out and destroy that of the enemy but to protect the colonies and seaborne trade of the State to which it belonged and capture or harass those of its opponents . |
| 4 | In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests . |
| 5 | Mr Major said : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to congratulate Liverpool on the remarkable way in which it arranged and organised the celebrations concerning the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 7 | We looked at the contexts in which it arose and the purposes for which it happened . |
| 8 | The emergence of the so-called ‘ new narrative ’ presupposes the existence of an ‘ old narrative ’ which it superseded and , in effect , the early 1940s may be regarded as a watershed . |
| 9 | He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough . |
| 10 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 11 | The Labour party possessed a utopian ethic of socialism but it failed to develop the pragmatic programme either to alter the capitalist state which it inherited or to reform it from within . |
| 12 | It was that of an articulate minority within the party which had a complex relationship with the class upon which it depended and which it claimed to represent . |
| 13 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |
| 14 | Against which it raged and charred |
| 15 | Issues considered by the Committee are : the Institute 's disciplinary procedures with particular reference to whether or not non-members should become involved ; a draft Practice Note ‘ Business and other names connected with a Chartered Architect 's Practice ’ , which it approved and which has been considered by the Practice Committee ; and details of the text of the Code , in respect of which changes are suggested . |
| 16 | Despite the earlier campaigns to the Forth against the Britons , this further offensive and the resources which it required and continued to require while Mercian strength increased in southern England represented a serious dislocation of northern Anglian royal aspirations , especially at a time when Oswiu remained committed to the maintenance of his influence south of the Humber , at least in ecclesiastical affairs . |
| 17 | Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre . |
| 18 | No one was quite sure what it meant but it sounded impressive . |
| 19 | Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it . |
| 20 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 21 | ‘ Over now , ’ Dot repeated , but she was n't sure what it meant and if she even wanted it over . |
| 22 | A number of feminists — Mary Daly is a good example — find it useful to subject words to a kind of archaeological excavation , turning to the etymological dictionaries to find out where a particular word came from , what it meant and how it has changed . |
| 23 | ‘ We did not realise what it meant and the more I have listened to them it is fair comment that they are saying it is too much . |
| 24 | People were flocking round each paper , jostling and craning to see what it said and who had signed so far . |
| 25 | After a new series of newspaper advertisements , for example , a firm can test a sample of the readership to ascertain how many readers noticed the advertisement , how many recalled what it said and how many had actually bought the product since reading it . |
| 26 | Who would mark that fly watching you , transmitting what it saw and heard back to the eye-screen from anywhere within a compass of twenty kilometres ? |
| 27 | Each side was determined to hold onto what it had and to negotiate only from a ‘ position of strength ’ . |
| 28 | Such a system of financing broadcasting would ensure that the public exercised a choice over what it watched and expressed its preferences through direct payments . |
| 29 | The teacher set his eyes upon his book and the water held and hid what it stole and went its way . |
| 30 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |