Example sentences of "of [Wh det] it [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) .
2 China produced 210,000 tons of pesticides in 1990 , 96 per cent of which it claims to be highly effective but low on toxicity and residue .
3 Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives .
4 Parliament is sovereign and in theory it can give the task of determining the legal meaning of whatsoever it chooses to whomsoever it likes .
5 The Keitel thing was different , however , because of what it led to .
6 Nevertheless , it continued to be critical of what it felt to be the excesses of some of TANU 's more extreme and strident members and officials .
7 Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them .
8 Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists .
9 In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person .
10 I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties .
11 In this account homosexuals are essentially failed men , and the arbiters of what it takes to be a successful male are of course not women but other males .
12 In 1969 , the World Health Assembly decided to abandon the aim of eradication in favour of what it considered to be the more realistic one of control to a level manageable by the existing public health services .
13 It reveals the long-term vision of the organisation in terms of what it wants to be .
14 It does , however , have a missionary vision of what it means to be truly human , derived partly from rational reflection on human capacities and desires , but supremely from its conviction that we glimpse true humanity in the life , death and teaching of Jesus .
15 If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European .
16 Although the evangelicals in the DUP are clearly out of step with most Ulster Protestant voters , they still represent the ideological centre of unionism , of what it means to be a Protestant .
17 Earlier in the book we examined the essence of what it means to be a person .
18 These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian .
19 In a world that substitutes power for relationships , lust for love and magic for the true love of God , we will always have to fight to express the truth of what it means to be truly human .
20 Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull .
21 That , I believe , is the real test of our fellowship and is right at the heart of what it means to be a responsible member of a Baptist church practising as we do the principle of congregational government .
22 Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away .
23 They have intimate experience of what it means to be rejected , forgotten , isolated .
24 If aggression and violence are part and parcel of what it means to be human , then why is it that there exist societies where aggressive or violent behaviour is conspicuous by its absence ?
25 The title of the Conference was ‘ Peace , Action , and the Concept of Self ’ , the overall focus being explications on indigenous ideas of what it means to be a human being , how the associated attributes are conceptualized , and patterns of behaviour .
26 War is popularly perceived as part and parcel of what it means to be human , and , with ever increasing deadly weapons , the devastating impact of war is consequently accepted as inevitable .
27 I now wish to look at some Chewong words that pertain to inner states and relate these to ideas of what it means to be human .
28 An example of what it means to be brave ( or not fearful ) was provided by myself .
29 While highlighting the issue of disappearances , entertainment and big names can soften the perception of what it means to be ‘ disappeared ’ .
30 ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history .
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