Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] it [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , this would be to empty the term of most of the meanings which it carries in actual discourse . |
| 2 | At this point we might begin to talk about ‘ the state ’ as something which extends beyond government ( and especially beyond the Government of the day ) and the part which it plays in ordering our lives through its claims to guarantee , represent and provide for the common interests of its citizens . |
| 3 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 4 | Weir did not have the benefit of any of the exceptionally large orders for desalination plant or gas-handling equipment which it won in 1991 , but new orders totalled £373 million and are expected to top £400 million in 1993 , helped by the weaker pound . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Circumspecte agatis deserves attention because of the circumstances which brought it about as much as for the harmony which it established in some controversial areas of justice . |
| 6 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |
| 7 | Previewed at the Manchester City Art Gallery in the spring , they are highly charged works bluntly tackling the issues of AIDS and the usually hysterical reaction which it engenders in the popular press . |
| 8 | This sense of the word ‘ estate ’ must not be confused with the special meaning which it has in regard to interests in land ( see p. 78 ) . |
| 9 | Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 12 | Concerto Köln may not be the most polished of today 's period instrument groups , but their playing of Handel 's miraculously varied score makes up in commitment what it lacks in finesse . |
| 13 | In mounting this exhibition , the National Gallery is correcting a bias which it perceives in the content and popularity of the British collections and continuing its reassessment of Northern European art , already apparent from its recent acquisitions policy . |
| 14 | For fairly obvious reasons , mostly no doubt connected with the spectre of Zhdanov and Socialist Realism ( but also I suspect because of a more subterranean philosophical linkage between Callinicos ' endorsement of Althusser 's ‘ complex totality ’ against Lukács ' ‘ expressive totality ’ and the political voluntarism which it informed in the early twenties ) , Callinicos has to answer : No . |
| 15 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
| 16 | But CIMA warned that the additional reporting burden which it represents in terms of cost and management time ‘ could lead to its acceptance being reduced ’ . |
| 17 | The Anglican Information Office , a corporate member of WACC , has produced this new publication to follow up on Getting into Print which it published in 1975 . |
| 18 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 19 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 20 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 21 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 22 | In its final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has retreated from the abolitionist position which it took in its Working Paper . |
| 23 | Town is on everyone 's lips today , and for the proud position which it occupies in public esteem it has very largely Mr Chapman to thank . ’ |
| 24 | With us ; I 've no idea what it did in India . |
| 25 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 26 | The Editor , Rev Obed Ochwanyi , said the newsletter is designed to ‘ sustain Christians ’ while the NCCK finalises its plans to launch a national church newspaper , similar to Target which it co-published in the seventies and eighties with the Christian Council of Tanzania . |
| 27 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 28 | But we never have occasion to predicate of an object the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us . |