Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [noun sg] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
2 | It concerned a man who did not believe in real divorces . |
3 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
4 | It libelled the plaintiff who issued a writ against the editor . |
5 | In the person of the ( non-academic ) Henry Newbolt , who subsequently was to chair the Departmental Committee , it found a figure who could articulate many of the themes to which both the fledgling discipline and the Association itself adhered . |
6 | It allows a user who has , until now , produced typewritten or word processed text to achieve results that are barely distinguishable from those achieved by professional publishers . |
7 | It shows the man who held up cashiers with a knife or a gun last Thursday , and got away with three thousand pounds . |
8 | It concerns a man who was a friend of mine . |
9 | One of the most dramatic and beautiful of all operas , it concerns a woman who conceives a child out of wedlock and is rejected by the baby 's father ; she is concealed by her stepmother , who , out of concern for the girl , drowns the baby soon after its birth . |
10 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
11 | When FYT was formed in 1964 , the high-energy group which gave rise to it needed a chairman who could mediate between differing views and draw differing visions into workable policies . |
12 | The paper gave fuel to its detractors last week when it named the woman who has accused Edward Kennedy 's nephew of raping her in Palm Beach at Easter . |
13 | When the state sold off its industrial interests or sponsored new ventures in the 1880s , it favoured the zaibatsu who tended to accumulate specialized industrial holdings , rather like the more recent French strategy of creating large firms as sector leaders . |
14 | She also ensured that she chaired the important Cabinet ( later ‘ EA ’ ) Committee on economic strategy and that it contained a majority who supported the economic strategy of herself and the Chancellor . |
15 | It meant a person who was not paid , was probably a close relative and had a strong emotional involvement with the person receiving care . |
16 | I thought it meant a man who hated a woman . |
17 | It makes no difference who was responsible for them . ’ |
18 | ‘ It makes no difference who or what you are . |
19 | You see , the point about a magnum is that it is metal psychology : it scares the shit out of the guy it is aimed at , it makes the guy who holds it feel really proud . ’ |