Example sentences of "[noun pl] of it which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the evidence , he stressed those aspects of it which told against Meehan and in favour of Waddell . |
| 2 | But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity . |
| 3 | The explosion of the term ‘ regionalism ’ in this way should lead one to be suspicious of usages of it which slide from one focus of attention to another , eliding explanations in the meanwhile . |
| 4 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 5 | At least , I assume this card ( which I am returning ) concerns the man who loves collecting pubic hair — it 's much too learned and technical for me to understand most of it , but there are bits of it which do seem to make it clear . |
| 6 | Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime . |
| 7 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |