Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case for using a Central Authority as a transmitting agency rests on the argument that the familiarity of its officers with the system of the Convention and with the practice of other countries would ensure that requests which it prepared or approved for transmission were in order and so would be handled expeditiously and without any need to refer a request back for clarification . |
| 2 | In France and Spain , and to a lesser extent in Britain , it was widely believed that the most important function of a fleet was not to seek out and destroy that of the enemy but to protect the colonies and seaborne trade of the State to which it belonged and capture or harass those of its opponents . |
| 3 | In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests . |
| 4 | Mr Major said : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to congratulate Liverpool on the remarkable way in which it arranged and organised the celebrations concerning the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | MI6 was greatly upset by Churchill 's decision to create Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , which it saw as infringing upon its sacred duties . |
| 6 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 7 | The Labour party possessed a utopian ethic of socialism but it failed to develop the pragmatic programme either to alter the capitalist state which it inherited or to reform it from within . |
| 8 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 9 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 10 | Against which it raged and charred |
| 11 | Despite the earlier campaigns to the Forth against the Britons , this further offensive and the resources which it required and continued to require while Mercian strength increased in southern England represented a serious dislocation of northern Anglian royal aspirations , especially at a time when Oswiu remained committed to the maintenance of his influence south of the Humber , at least in ecclesiastical affairs . |
| 12 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 13 | Who would mark that fly watching you , transmitting what it saw and heard back to the eye-screen from anywhere within a compass of twenty kilometres ? |
| 14 | Each side was determined to hold onto what it had and to negotiate only from a ‘ position of strength ’ . |
| 15 | Such a system of financing broadcasting would ensure that the public exercised a choice over what it watched and expressed its preferences through direct payments . |
| 16 | The teacher set his eyes upon his book and the water held and hid what it stole and went its way . |
| 17 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
| 18 | Slowing down , the equivalent gravity pulls the opposite way to what it did when speeding up . |