Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 2 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 3 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 4 | Remarkably , its arguments began to sound like those of the Central Electricity Generating Board , as it sought to cast doubt on the very existence of an acid rain problem . |
| 5 | Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment . |
| 6 | ‘ I fancied getting married in black because it seemed to throw tradition to the winds , and looked very dramatic . |
| 7 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 8 | Once the general subcommittee had done its survey of the system , it turned to inform Parliament of the issues embodied ( or concealed ) in the annual expenditure White Paper , the first of these reports being the Fifth Report of the 1972–3 session . |
| 9 | On 26th April , it declined to offer evidence on the charges for the remaining third murder and they , too , were dropped without publicity . |
| 10 | The evolution in party policy from the beginning of September , when , despite a ruthless government crackdown on its activities , it stressed the " anti-fascist " nature of the war , and the beginning of October when , following pressure from the Communist International , it began to give prominence to the " imperialist " nature of the struggle , " is of major significance when assessing Nizan 's decision to resign . |
| 11 | It threatened to use force against the strikers , but this was challenged both by Budapest 's police chief and by President Arpad Göncz . |
| 12 | It decided to begin work on the formation of a new communist party called the Union of Communists ( after the organisation for which Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 ) . |
| 13 | Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat . |
| 14 | On the other hand , spiritualism was testable , or seemed so : without any background of dogma , it aimed to provide evidence for the survival of loved ones . |
| 15 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 16 | This enabled the Bank to raise the rate when it wished to tighten liquidity in the banking sector and force the banks to recall loans from the discount houses . |
| 17 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 18 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 19 | In this way , it hoped to do justice to the real humanness of Jesus , while still affirming the established doctrine of his ‘ two natures ’ . |
| 20 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 21 | He refused to comment on Pittencrieff 's intentions for its recently-acquired 16.6 per cent stake in Aberdeen Petroleum , but said Pittencrieff had made it clear it wanted to see rationalisation among the smaller oil companies . |
| 22 | It attempted to get money from the ACE members upfront to fund the project , he said . |