Example sentences of "of [Wh det] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 2 | ( In the light of which it is pleasing to discover that in 1566 , when Rainoldes was a 17-year-old student at Oxford , he acted the part of a female in a play composed tor Queen Elizabeth — see Paine , The Learned Men , 23 ) . |
| 3 | Yet recognition of the anti-Vietnamese resistance coalition , of which it is the dominant partner , will be maintained at the United Nations next week . |
| 4 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 5 | The Government reckons it will cost about £4 million to implement , 75 per cent of which it is hoped will be clawed back from industry . |
| 6 | The German government , forced to cover currency losses on Deutsche Aerospace 's work for Airbus , the pan-European aircraft consortium of which it is a member , is reluctant to put up yet more taxpayers ' money to back Mr Schrempp 's ambitious and controversial scheme to build a 130-seat regional airliner outside the Airbus consortium . |
| 7 | A legacy which earmarks , not a particular thing , but a particular fund or collection out of which it is to come ( e.g. ‘ one of my three violins ' ) is called demonstrative . |
| 8 | But a demonstrative legacy , if the fund out of which it is to come ceases to exist before the death , becomes payable as a general legacy . |
| 9 | For the leaders of the movement a dilution of the radical goals is attractive because it will reduce the stigma attached to the movement and reduce the tension between it and the wider society of which it is a part . |
| 10 | So far as its origin is concerned , we shall take it as a factor in organic evolution , and shall content ourselves with pointing out certain more primitive features of which it is the natural development . |
| 11 | The photons of which it is composed have extremely high energy , and instead of merely vibrating the molecules of living tissues and heating them , they infiltrate organic molecules and disrupt their chemistry . |
| 12 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 13 | ( Compare ideals of love of which this is true with those of which it is not . ) |
| 14 | This method may be different from the machine of which it is part . |
| 15 | The law defines conservation areas as ‘ areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ . |
| 16 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 17 | For example , the eye is a beautifully organized and complex structure but the parts of which it is composed have , as we have seen , very different developmental histories . |
| 18 | I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed . |
| 19 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 20 | When X-rays are absorbed by matter electrons are ejected from the atoms of which it is composed . |
| 21 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 22 | As children 's worlds expand , the home — through the people , animals , and objects of which it is composed — provides educational opportunities . |
| 23 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 24 | It can take a flavour from the rich mixture of people of which it is composed . |
| 25 | A socio-technical system must also satisfy the financial conditions of the industry of which it is a part . |
| 26 | The model is now flying at the maximum speed of which it is capable and is in a situation where all power above that required to maintain height goes into making the model move forwards . |
| 27 | The state of a living cell is a direct reflection of the state of its host 's metabolism and its nature no different from that of the organism of which it is an integral part . |
| 28 | A company qualifies as a small company for the purposes of filing abbreviated accounts if , ( a ) following s 246(4) neither the company , nor any company in the group of which it is a member , is : a public company or a body corporate ( not being a company ) that has power under its constitution to offer its shares or debentures to the public and may lawfully exercise that power ; a bank ; an insurance company ; or an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 29 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 30 | Briefing on business matters should include basic details such as normal hours of work as well as information on the structure of the work-force , including the nationalities of which it is comprised and where , if any , skill shortages exist . |