Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Sainsburys , Tescos and Safeways of the world are the people with the financial clout and organisational know-how to spend the £15million or so which it takes to buy the land , negotiate the planning hurdles , employ a builder and stock the shelves to open a new superstore on a good site . |
| 2 | A day did n't pass now during which it failed to occur to her that she had borne two congenital liars . |
| 3 | This section briefly sketches some elements of a culturally constituted image of Semai reality , and the motivational context which it helps to define . |
| 4 | DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) . |
| 5 | The Auditing Practices Board 's discussion paper on the future direction of auditing ( see p 88 ) has been given a warm welcome by most of the profession , and the debate which it hoped to stimulate is already underway . |
| 6 | The Ministry of the Interior , anxious about the security implications of labour unrest , experimented from 1901–3 with police-run labour organizations through which it hoped to direct working-class energy from political towards purely economic and cultural aims . |
| 7 | The common dolphin has a total of 180 teeth , which it uses to hold the captured meal fast while it is turned around to be swallowed head first . |
| 8 | How close it approaches a food item is dependent on several factors , because the bream , in common with other bottom feeding fish , has the facility of extending lips which it uses to suck and blow a food item to clean it before consuming it . |
| 9 | There is often political pressure on a company from the country in which it operates to allow a greater degree of control to be exercised by the country concerned . |
| 10 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 11 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 12 | For example , whether or not a company should relocate its head office , creating unemployment and inflicting wide- ranging economic and social damage on the community from which it proposes to exit , is not an issue that is resolvable by conventional regulatory techniques . |
| 13 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 14 | If it is in the interests of the development , a single Stage 2 submission from a consortium may be accepted provided it sets out clearly the ability of each course team to deliver and the ability of each centre to support the course or the units which it proposes to offer . |
| 15 | I believe that he was misleading the House and the country by those assertions , because the burden of the case of those of us who think that the Bill is completely irrelevant to the problems of our prisons which it purports to tackle is that the penalties already exist in the Public Order Act 1986 , for which the Government can legitimately take credit . |
| 16 | The ‘ preface ’ , on the other hand , is the language of the novel in which a statement is always a preface to that which it purports to describe , since only the language itself is ever realized . |
| 17 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 18 | The Committee draws attention to any draft which it considers to raise a matter of political or legal importance . |
| 19 | On July 13 the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet had passed a resolution asserting its authority over the republic 's state bank and other banks which it ordered to convert into commercial banks issuing shares . |
| 20 | Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment . |
| 21 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 22 | Under the expansionist management of Don Ryder ( a former financial journalist whose later success took him , inevitably it might seem , to the House of Lords ) the company diversified — into wallpaper products for example , By 1971 , Reed had outgrown its parent company , which it proceeded to take over . |
| 23 | Such trends are embodied in the DFG 's rolling research schemes described above , which it plans to continue in spite of some hassles , for example in getting the university to provide promised backup , or take over schemes when the DFG ‘ pump-priming ’ funds run out . |
| 24 | This means that German coal producers can expect DM 550 million as coking coal aid and DM 184 million as investment help in 1984 but the government has expressed a disinclination to subsidise exports , which it plans to phase out . |
| 25 | The Marlborough , Massachusetts-based company will use Precision Architecture in future high-end machines which it plans to roll out in 1994 or 1995 . |
| 26 | Novell Japan already claims 500 registered outlets to which it plans to add some more dealers with Unix experience . |
| 27 | It has also formed a Candle Advanced Solution Institute through which it plans to share its experiences and recommendations in areas of client-server computing , open systems and object oriented software for the mainframe and other environments . |
| 28 | With a claimed 25% share of the European high-end Token Ring hub market , the Migda Ha-Emek , Israel-based LanOptics Ltd has established a UK subsidiary through which it plans to boost its profile here . |
| 29 | It serves to hide the professional , that is elite , structure through which it continues to operate by assuming the mantle of the popular for itself . |
| 30 | Bell says that at 250 MIPS , the illusive box will be faster than the old Multiflow systems which it continues to market , though at much reduced prices . |