Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded .
2 ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem .
3 Chamber Chairman Nigel Parriss , whose brainchild it all has been , was amazed by the amount of interest that has been generated .
4 Four samples of typing had subsequently been brought to Wickham , each identified by the registration number of the machine and the name of the person whose desk it normally stood on .
5 There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat .
6 It was built as a defence against the Russians , on whose border it still stands .
7 This catfish exhibits an usual form of ‘ parental care ’ , not dissimilar to that of the cuckoo — which is infamous for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaving them to be hatched and raised by the involuntary ‘ foster-parents ’ In the case of Synodontis multipunctatus , it swims in and out among mouth-brooding cichlids which are in the throes of spawning and releases its eggs at the same time as the cichlid , whose eggs it often devours .
8 The left 's failure to woo with social legislation a class many of whose members it also alienated by its anticlericalism handed them on a plate to its right-wing opponents .
9 The dual source of the state 's role in hegemony helps us understand the limitations of the state in respect of the alliance whose power it also represents .
10 I was n't sure if there or well there may be so whatever reasons it just went out the window .
11 What makes it possible to ask meaningfully in respect of a given existent not only in what way it qualitatively differs from any other type of existent , but what makes it numerically , existentially unique ?
12 Drugs might make people schizophrenic — or the system , as Laing was suggesting whichever way It certainly reflected it .
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