Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When the Cork County Council planning committee met later that month it agreed to hold further consultations with local residents .
2 Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] .
3 The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process .
4 Though it captured much of the dynamic of British and American FDI in the pre-oil shock world , it failed to anticipate subsequent developments in corporate strategy or indeed what had motivated investors from other countries .
5 FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs .
6 A search beyond it failed to locate any continuance of Fleming 's Vein ( it was often called Thriddle V. ) and it became considered that Fleming 's was best regarded as a continuance of the Bonsor but shifted by the movement along the fault .
7 One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority .
8 There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development .
9 Known as the Crossman scheme , it failed to gain parliamentary approval before the 1970 election .
10 It planned to reduce foreign aid by Can .
11 It involves using strict criteria for admission , such as failure in a nursing home or extreme restlessness and aggression .
12 It involves pushing one crate into an adjacent space , thus producing a new naive state , and also extending the sequence of naive operations by this extra push .
13 It sought to achieve some form of policy coordination in other , more economic sectors : transport in 1953 , civil aviation in 1954 , and agriculture in 1955 ( though the latter was essentially organised within the context of OEEC since Switzerland and Portugal , not then Council members , were also participants ) .
14 For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations .
15 It offers to show that practice in its best light , to deploy some argument why law on that conception provides an adequate justification for coercion .
16 It involved identifying common concerns of teachers and then producing stimulus materials to initiate and focus discussion and trigger groups working on them to devise their own plans of action .
17 Like NCR , it needs to collect more data on what they 're really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate .
18 Like NCR Corp , it needs to collect more data on what the gang is really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate ; also like NCR , if the effort is primarily concerned with the desktop , then DEC would not be very interested .
19 Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude .
20 It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said .
21 USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side .
22 The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way .
23 What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ?
24 The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case .
25 ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 .
26 It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter .
27 The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name .
28 Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo .
29 It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future .
30 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
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