Example sentences of "it [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had a purity about it which he could not find in any part of himself . |
| 32 | There was a little plastic notice next to it which read EDENWORT : SLICE IT OR BAKE IT OR USE IT IN CASSEROLES . |
| 33 | This clock has several buttons on it which you can press to indicate the kind of activity in which you are currently engaged . |
| 34 | Sliding the mouse over the desk top beside the computer rotates a direction-sensitive ball inside it which in turn moves a pointer over the screen . |
| 35 | It may here also be explained that after the main source of the Fleet was diverted , the portion of it which originally formed the boundary of the site granted for the building of the College , became a stagnant Ditch , which in process of time dried up , and that , with the addition of gravel and earth , a dry path from the College to the Professor 's house was thus constructed . |
| 36 | However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus . |
| 37 | An infra-red photograph of the King Stone taken in April 1979 at sunrise showed a glow around the stone and a ‘ ray ’ sloping off from it which photographic experts have not been able to explain . |
| 38 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 39 | There were engraved letters on it which she could not read , because she had never learned . |
| 40 | This special tool has a piece of quartz built in to it which releases energy — the spark — when it 's squeezed . |
| 41 | Indirect Rule , then , had several ‘ meanings ’ , not all of them logically compatible with each other , but there was one thing about it which was entirely clear : the conception of government underlying it was a highly charismatic one . |
| 42 | I had it in an Anvil case , and a shipping crate built for it which cost almost as much as the amp did originally , and it got thrown or dropped real badly , did quite a bit of damage to it . |
| 43 | It was what he did with it which was important . |
| 44 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 45 | Musically it 's just the right side of being cheap — lyrically it 's got a depth to it which cries out Secrets ! |
| 46 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 47 | Nevertheless , it has its place in camcorder operating techniques and there is a right way of doing it which is worth learning and practising . |
| 48 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 49 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |
| 50 | He knew the answers to his questions very well ; all too many men were relegated to the position of drone — and they resented it ; they showed their resentment all too often by despising women and taking the attitude that such inept creatures should be allowed to play while men ran the world and did anything in it which was worth doing . |
| 51 | Turning to the evidence , he stressed those aspects of it which told against Meehan and in favour of Waddell . |
| 52 | She came back , this time carrying a plate with home-made biscuits on it which she held out to Meredith . |
| 53 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | We shall refer again to this investigation but there is one aspect of it which it is appropriate to comment upon at this point . |
| 56 | Whenever I want to knit bands of reversed stocking stitch now , I know two ways to do it which are much better than using the garter bar . |
| 57 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 58 | Despite the noise of the traffic out in the piazza , the room had a peaceful sense of intimacy about it which may have had something to do with the large low beds and the subtle green and white colours . |
| 59 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 60 | He remembered the old church , and from the description of it which he wrote in old age , it is possible to form a more complete picture of its internal arrangements than of any other pre-Conquest church . |