Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [adv] fit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buick decided to shed cars which did not fit its image , like the Grand National . |
| 2 | His bulk was squeezed inside the chauffeur 's uniform , which did not fit his turnip-like shape too well . |
| 3 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 4 | But there were mistakes and sometimes a wrong tune was precented which did not fit the words , and on one or two occasions the congregation took up a tune of their own which was not intended in my precenting . |
| 5 | Terry Donovan , managing director of Metrologie UK , said there would be further divestments — to be announced in the next few months — of operations which did not fit the company 's corporate focus on hardware solutions . |
| 6 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 7 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 8 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 9 | Against this background we successfully integrated Ultramar 's upstream assets and undertook a rationalisation and disposal programme of those assets which did not fit the long-term strategy of the Company . |
| 10 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 11 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 12 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 13 | It is a pity that Berger inserts passages told by the girl , which do not fit . |
| 14 | Because the business of education is largely concerned with human issues , there will be situations arising which do not fit within the rational planning model . |
| 15 | Reorganization is fitted into a model which already exists without sufficient attention always being given to those parts which do not fit very well . |
| 16 | Laws describes women in academia as Tokens , made deviant first by their sex , and then their aspirations , which do not fit with social expectations about women : ‘ Being born female , the Token is assimilated to primary deviant status . |
| 17 | This would produce exponential curves , which do not fit the data , particularly in the first 3 months after radiotherapy . |
| 18 | In any case , many members have their own plans for areas beyond the kernel which do not fit in with what UI wants to do . |
| 19 | Terrorist offences , which do not fit easily into systems of justice devised for other purposes , make it doubly important that this ideal is preserved . |
| 20 | They tell only part of the story , and leave out any elements which do not fit into their chosen line of argument . |
| 21 | In this chapter we have tried to give some idea of the impact of the Conservatives ' economic and social policies upon those crimes which do not fit into their own view of criminality . |
| 22 | The typical pattern of female activities among the poor and the very poor included borrowing , bartering and pawning , as well as housekeeping chores and paid employment , which do not fit neatly into the realm of either production or consumption . |
| 23 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 24 | If the data have been ordered into contigs then the positives should occur in overlapping runs ( Fig 3 ) , and inconsistencies in the data are immediately apparent by eye because all the hybridisations to each clone are visible , including those which do not fit well with the current order of clones and probes . |
| 25 | However comprehensive one 's descriptive framework may be ( and the one given in this course is very limited ) , there will inevitably be cases which do not fit within it . |
| 26 | He talks well , he 's travelled to distant lands , he speaks foreign languages , he 's conversant with the arts — more than conversant — and he dresses in clothes which do n't fit the contours of his body and are therefore declared to be fashionable by people in the know . |
| 27 | Non-scientists — and anti-scientists — are often troubled by such apparent unwillingness among scientists to spend time investigating seemingly paradoxical results which do n't fit into current experimental paradigms — corn-circles , ESP , UFOs , aromatherapy or whatever . |
| 28 | This is a short excursion which does not fit in with any of the circuits mentioned above . |
| 29 | Now Interactive is looking for a buyer for the technology , which does not fit with its new brief as a networking technology specialist . |
| 30 | Carol Gilligan , in In a Different Voice : Psychological Theory and Women 's Development ( 1982 ) , examines psychological theories concerning human moral development , and suggests that a male model has been developed which does not fit the experiences of most women 's lives . |