Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zenith Data Systems Europe , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's microcomputer subsidiary , announced eight new models of its Z-Station desktops , five ‘ network-ready ’ Z-Note and the Z-Lite 320L , which it calls a ‘ subnotebook ’ computer : the Z-Stations are based on the Intel 80486DX/2 66MHz and 50MHz and the 33MHz 80486SX processors ; three of the new Z-Note models are based on the Intel 80486SL chip , and two on the 25MHz 80386SL , and also feature a passive matrix colour display ; the Z-Lite 320L weighs 4 lbs and uses the 3.3V 80386 SL chip , which provides for between three and six hours of working between charges . |
| 2 | It also has a new entry-level desktop configuration , the 30LC , which it calls the lowest cost multiprocessing-capable machine available at $16,000 . |
| 3 | For the rest , excepting those who attend independent schools , the Act may be judged on the extent to which it promotes the interests of all children . |
| 4 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 5 | A. ingolfiana can be distinguished from other amphiurid genera and certain ophiurinids , to which it bears a superficial resemblance because of the superficial second oral tentacle pore , by the scaling of the disk , the arrangement of the oral plates , the lack of tentacle scales and the erect arm spines . |
| 6 | The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality . |
| 7 | It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers . |
| 8 | The Foreign Ministry , in a diplomatic note on Sept. 15 , 1989 , called on the Soviet Union to renegotiate the 1986 fishing agreement allowing Soviet vessels to fish in Argentine territorial waters [ see p. 34673 ] , failing which it said the agreement would not be extended on its expiry in March 1990 . |
| 9 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 10 | On the one hand , GM has joined forces with Toyota in car production and with the Japanese van manufacturer Isuzu , to which it sold a 40 per cent stake in its Bedford van plant in the UK and with which it is now investing £70m to produce a new four-wheel drive vehicle for the European market . |
| 11 | For four days the battalion suffered continuous attacks from apparently limitless numbers , during which it made a fighting withdrawal of 10 miles . |
| 12 | On the same day , the United States also entered into a Memorandum of Assurance with Israel in which it made a number of more specific undertakings directed towards preserving the security of Israel in the event of a violation of the Peace Treaty . |
| 13 | The market price of an asset is simply the present value of the income stream to which it entitles the owner . |
| 14 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 15 | The term is now used more commonly in a broad sense in which it connotes a looser grouping of individuals , each exercising power and united by one or more of a number of features such as wealth , social origins or pre-eminence in achievement in a particular field . |
| 16 | The pain , which was due to the pressure of the cancer on a nerve , was entirely relieved by the shrinking of the growth , to the extent at which it caused no further suffering . |
| 17 | Admittedly nerves were strained to breaking point and great passions aroused , yet what mattered in the longer run was the extent to which it caused the British to decide to draw even closer to the United States . |
| 18 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |
| 19 | Ideally , the Bank would like to sell all tap stock at or above the published issue price — minimum tender price or certified price at which it acquired the stock — but this is not always possible ; inevitably there are occasions when the Bank is holding unsold stock and when rates of interest rise and bond prices fall . |
| 20 | Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic . |
| 21 | Subsequently , the landlord entered into a mortgage agreement in which it assigned the reversion to Hua Chiao Bank , with provision for reassignment upon redemption . |
| 22 | Under the Acts of Parliament ( Commencement ) Act 1793 , an Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent unless otherwise provided , with effect from the last moment of the previous day . |
| 23 | However , after exhaustive efforts to produce interfaces using Motif — which it dubs a ‘ deranged widget set ’ — the company has decided to ‘ stop throwing good money after bad and cease using it until it either improves or disappears . ’ |
| 24 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 25 | The probable evolution of Hurst Castle Spit is shown in Fig. 8.26 , from which it can be seen that , with the wearing back of the coast from A to C , the spit will occupy successively the positions AA' , BB' and CC' , the last being its present position , in which it preserves the recurved ends of former stages . |
| 26 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 27 | By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status . |
| 28 | The United States space shuttle Discovery landed safely on Oct. 10 after a flawless four-day mission during which it launched the Ulysses space craft , a joint project of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) , on a US$750,000,000 five-year mission to investigate the Sun 's unexplored polar regions , its magnetic field and the solar wind . |
| 29 | A different form of control liability will , however , apply if the dominant undertaking — whether or not a shareholder — has formalised its relationship with the public company concerned by a control contract which provides for it to manage the company and in which it offers the minority shareholders a buy-out or , at the shareholders ' option , to pay them an annual protected dividend . |
| 30 | It was conceded that the advantages within a college are clear ( Williams 1987:490 ) : The increased awareness of the college environment which it offers the manager permits more forceful and effective action on his or her part … |