Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relaunched company was primarily concerned with exporting textiles , and in particular Indian cotton goods , which continued to be its main line of business throughout the century and a half in which it traded with India . |
| 2 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 3 | The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop , which it substituted for its proprietary GUI , to shorten the learning curve . |
| 4 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 5 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 6 | The computer , which it developed with Hitachi Microcomputer System Ltd , is $135,000 . |
| 7 | The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence , apart from the aeroplane , was a hare which it struck on landing . |
| 8 | Under a new agreement signed between Morocco and the EC on March 21 , 1990 , Spain would pay Morocco compensation for the economic damage which it suffered during the blockade of Algeciras which was normally extensively used by Morocco , and certain matters pertaining to fines were clarified . |
| 9 | Fokker is negotiating with Lockheed to assemble aircraft in America : this would bring Lockheed back into the commercial business , which it quit in 1981 after losing its shirt with the TriStar . |
| 10 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 11 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 12 | Her hair was long , and it was impossible to tell the place at which it merged with the fabric . |
| 13 | The final testimony to the vitality of European civilization in this period is the small concession which it made to reciprocal influences from the world outside . |
| 14 | The substantial advances which it made on the earlier law were two : |
| 15 | None of this meant that war was a rare or unimportant phenomenon in the eighteenth century or that the demands which it made on the peoples of Europe were negligible . |
| 16 | They claimed that Saibou 's government had failed to keep promises which it made on the conditions for their return . |
| 17 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |
| 18 | So the impact of nineteen twenty five to seven on the Communist Party and on the revolution which it made in nineteen forty nine is just as great as the impact had been on the Kuomintang and nationalist China . |
| 19 | Before independence , TANU had its own newsletter , Sauti ya TANU ( ‘ The Voice of TANU ’ ) , which it produced from its headquarters in Dar es Salaam . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 21 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 22 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 23 | The summit also called for an end to the deadlock in Iran-Iraq peace talks , which it blamed on the " persistently negative stance and intransigence " of Iran . |
| 24 | It received the wire services of Reuters and AFP , which it retransmitted to its customers , including the Times and the Mail . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 26 | As one of the four original components of the US-administered UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , Belau had negotiated a Compact of Free Association with the USA , but this compact had never become operative , as the rights which it granted to the USA to determine defence and foreign policy issues conflicted with the clauses of Belau 's Constitution which forbade the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons . |
| 27 | In its final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has retreated from the abolitionist position which it took in its Working Paper . |
| 28 | It also wanted parts — for which it went to Unipart . |
| 29 | In 1540 the house passed to Anne of Cleves as part of her settlement , after which it came into the hands of the Chauncy family . |
| 30 | In particular , they must have forgotten the acts of violence through which it came into being ; and to be a nation , its inhabitants have to have a will to be a nation . |