Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 2 | Kleinwort Benson , which disclosed it had purchased 200,000 of its own shares at 353p each , rose 11p to 366p and Hambros edged ahead 3p to 232p . |
| 3 | Which read it , read it , see what his name was . |
| 4 | Its design and construction were handed to the Bristol Aircraft Company , which designated it model 167 . |
| 5 | However , although ‘ device neutral ’ in the above sense , a cad file must support the features of the cad system which produced it . |
| 6 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 7 | For Robbe-Grillet , there was also a direct correlation between Balzacian realism as a literary form and the society which produced it . |
| 8 | It combined within itself in eloquent reflection of the age which produced it both a daring and innovative modernity and a heroic and comforting traditionalism . |
| 9 | But North West Thames health authority , which produced it , said : ‘ The cost was surplus from our budget and was never meant for patient care . ’ |
| 10 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 11 | This is a racist discourse profoundly marked by the fractures of identity which produced it , and consequently one whose internal contradictions are both more explicitly articulated and more strongly disavowed . |
| 12 | The mistake that many students make is to consider the product , in this case an A level essay , more important in itself than the process which produced it . |
| 13 | Winter corn must not be sown in the same land which produced it , but should be brought from distant parts to ensure a better crop , but lent corn may be sown from the lord 's own seed . |
| 14 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 15 | mode of argument ( c ) : Relate a text to the historical circumstances which produced it , or in which it is read . |
| 16 | In June 1682 Louis XIV , now at the height of his power , explicitly asserted his right to correspond with all foreign sovereigns in French and not to use Latin ; and though the treaty of Ryswick between France and the Holy Roman Empire in 1697 was still in Latin most of the discussion which produced it was in French , as was the Franco-Dutch agreement of the same year . |
| 17 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 18 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 19 | The boozy gabble of the offenders was suddenly silenced , although whether it was the tone of Frau Nordern 's voice or the word ‘ ministry ’ which stilled it , it would be hard to say . |
| 20 | So the main American concern after Suez was the obvious possibility of increased Russian influence in the Middle East , taking advantage of the divisions between the Western Allies , Eisenhower moved quickly , and in March 1957 , Congress approved a resolution giving the President power to grant economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern power which requested it . |
| 21 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 22 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 23 | The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s . |
| 24 | A leader of the US Communist Party in New York from the late 1940s , he was imprisoned in 1953 for two years for violating the Smith Act , which made it a crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the Government . |
| 25 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 26 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 27 | But , avidly staring , he persuaded himself into both the disappointment and the relief of recognizing that the girl possessed the kind of grace or innate innocence which made it very unlikely — no , impossible ! filthily impossible ! — that her young breasts and thighs were commodities available for temporary hire . |
| 28 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 29 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 30 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |