Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 2 | The court , when hearing the petition , may dismiss the petition , adjourn the hearing , or make any order which it thinks fit . |
| 3 | With regard to his consecration , the only controversial question which it raised concerned his relationship with the archbishop of York who consecrated him , and this will be discussed below in the context of the Primacy . |
| 4 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 5 | Like the Middle East Commandos from which the bulk of the unit originated , the SBS never quite obtained the recognition it deserved , being little known even within the theatre in which it spent most of the war . |
| 6 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 7 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 8 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 9 | When the larva is about to shed its skin and change into a pupa ( which it does prior to emerging as a real fly ) , it exudes a sticky fluid . |
| 10 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 11 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 12 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 13 | Electricity continued to replace steam-powered mechanical drives , and the subdivision of power which it made possible remained a fundamentally attractive characteristic . |
| 14 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 15 | So is an appendix devoted to the umpires , from which it emerges that of the list of 31 only six have not been first-class cricketers : a healthy ratio surely . |
| 16 | Current alliances include the agreement under which it manufactures some microprocessors under licence from Intel Corp , its joint venture with Siemens AG and Toshiba Corp on memory chips , and the PowerPC alliance with Motorola Inc , and its less well-defined agreements with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV . |
| 17 | In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent . |
| 18 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 19 | BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing . |
| 20 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 21 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 22 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 23 | you know those orange drinks , which it says real oranges in nine times out of ten , it is n't there 's always some additives and what have you |
| 24 | The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund . |
| 25 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 26 | The Commission is planning a last-ditch battle to defend tax proposals which it considers essential for completion of the 1992 internal market programme . |
| 27 | At issue is one small , but key part of the European Commission 's plan for an alignment of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates in the 12 member states , which it considers essential if frontier checks on traders are to be abolished after 1992 . |
| 28 | Top American brokerage Weedin & Co has constantly rejected the New York Stock Exchange for the American OTC market , which it considers superior and this attitude is by no means uncommon . |
| 29 | Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object . |
| 30 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |