Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adorno 's critique , therefore , and in particular the critique of the Culture Industry is mounted from the increasingly beleaguered and restricted field of the avant garde , and it is this , in part , which wins it the current disapproval of the more enthusiastically affirmative , apparently democratic , or outright populist approaches to popular culture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a result of these processes , madeira wine gained qualities which made it a rival of port and sherry . |
| 5 | Only a year earlier , Wilson himself had denounced the legislation which made it a member . |
| 6 | In retrospect , Ceauşescu 's first important meeting with a Western head of state on equal terms took place in circumstances which made it a curious anticipation of his own downfall . |
| 7 | The dollar also became a principal source of liquidity for private transactions ( e.g. oil payments ) because of the dollar 's crucial position in the international monetary system , which made it a safe and acceptable medium of exchange . |
| 8 | The factors which made it a reality in the 1970s are a pool of cheap labour , new production processes and new communications methods . |
| 9 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 10 | It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It had a long colonial veranda and a high cupola , while the terminus of the railway , Tank Road Station at the docks , had a tower which made it an aid to ships navigating the harbour . |
| 13 | The visual splendour and durability of gold which made it an outstanding symbol of excellence were matched by the fact that however widely distributed and keenly sought in nature it has remained rare . |
| 14 | But whatever the government 's motivation , the Official Secrets Act — a steamroller of an Act , as it then stood , which made it an offence to divulge almost anything of any kind ascertained in the course of official duties — was not used . |
| 15 | Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers , but as you know , we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham , which made it an offence to , in certain circumstances to kerb crawl , looking for prostitutes . |
| 16 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 17 | It was the oldest Boeing remaining in existence which made it an historical treasure , and it was an interesting aircraft beyond that because it flew in so many of the old Hollywood movies . |
| 18 | Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East . |
| 19 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 20 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 21 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 22 | The most significant of these was Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , which made it the responsibility of an employee to show that an employer used practices adversely affecting women and minorities without any " business necessity " . |
| 23 | Despite minor errors the book has a style and a use of simile which make it a pleasure to read . |
| 24 | It has several features which make it a useful starting point for a tour across north Switzerland , a kind of advance taster of the delights to come . |
| 25 | Of course , hypertext is a reality today because of the availability of computer environments which make it a practical possibility . |
| 26 | I refer here to cases in which sexual behaviour or play with other children becomes obsessive in nature and frequency — or where it is imposed against the wishes of other children involved ; cases in which masturbation becomes a near-total preoccupation , or is carried out in circumstances which make it an aggressive act or one of attention-seeking ; or those in which the very nature of sexual activity shows that its implications are fully understood regardless of age . |
| 27 | All along its sides the railway is flanked by grass verges and small scrubby bushes which make it an ideal habitat for wild flowers and birds so keep looking for these as you walk along . |
| 28 | Most of the present problems of industrial societies are felt acutely in the United Kingdom , which make it an ideal starting point for comparative research and analysis . |
| 29 | This is an example of an attempt to grapple with the issue of discontinuity from within a problematic which allows it no space . |
| 30 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |