Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Known as the Crossman scheme , it failed to gain parliamentary approval before the 1970 election . |
| 6 | It planned to reduce foreign aid by Can . |
| 7 | It involves using strict criteria for admission , such as failure in a nursing home or extreme restlessness and aggression . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has received formal approval from the Justice Ministry , which ruled that the Party 's programme is acceptable under the recently-approved Law on Political parties . |
| 18 | As the National Coal Board has continued to cut coal-mining employment there after the end of the strike , it has placed great emphasis upon the role of its job-creating subsidiary , NCB ( Enterprises ) in providing alternative jobs . |
| 19 | It has enabled joint training of staff to deal with the prominent client groups : gay men , drug users , and people who have contracted HIV through contaminated blood . |
| 20 | This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training . |
| 21 | Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals . |
| 22 | In that time , it has created new philosophy within Scottish Nuclear for getting things done , improving the way we work , and making significant savings in the company 's costs . |
| 23 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 24 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 25 | There is evidence that it has killed large quantities of worms , crabs , molluscs and starfish . |
| 26 | For much of 1980s , it has devised urban policies of a more imaginative and consensual nature than central government was able to create in England . |
| 27 | Take education : it has made gigantic strides against bitter opposition to reform the system , to raise standards , to monitor the results and to draw industry closer to the academic and the educational world . ’ |
| 28 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
| 29 | It has achieved remarkable success in winning money from the European funding programmes . |
| 30 | It has undergone drastic changes over the past few years . |