Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to notify clients in writing of the amount and terms of commission received as a result of advice given to those clients and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 5.03 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to give notice to its Bank that all money standing to the credit of its Investment Business Client Bank Account was to be held by the firm as a trustee or agent within the terms of the regulation was reprimanded , fined £l , 000 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example , when Kodak wished to set up a regional distribution centre in Nairobi , it failed to gain permission for ‘ green channel ’ facilities for the re-exports . |
| 7 | Later in October the government confirmed a change in cocoa marketing strategy , saying that it planned to sell cocoa in relatively small quantities through the London market , with the aim of stimulating competition and securing an increase in prices , rather than seeking to obtain large-scale contracts with overseas buyers [ for January 1989 cocoa deal with French trading house see p. 36413 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most of the Party 's agitational work was devoted to the very small number of local kolkhozy , as if , like Catherine the Great , it sought to derive comfort from over-concentrating on its equivalents of Potemkin 's model villages . |
| 10 | It sought to overcome conflict within capitalist societies by encouraging Christian leaders to reconsider Leo XIII 's suggestion of introducing ‘ industrial associations ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It involved exchanging ore from his new McCamey 's Monster mine for manufactured goods . |
| 13 | ‘ I fancied getting married in black because it seemed to throw tradition to the winds , and looked very dramatic . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now it seemed to have difficulty in moving at all . |
| 16 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 17 | Suppose it happened to bias meiosis in such a way that it , the mutant gene itself , was more likely than its allelic partner to end up in the egg . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On 26th April , it declined to offer evidence on the charges for the remaining third murder and they , too , were dropped without publicity . |
| 20 | When at last the government saw how matters were developing , it began to reproach industry for failing to respond to its ‘ anti-inflationary ’ measures . |
| 21 | In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It threatened to use force against the strikers , but this was challenged both by Budapest 's police chief and by President Arpad Göncz . |
| 24 | At its 1935 conference it decided to oppose League of Nations sanctions against Italy , an approach close to that eventually adopted by the ILP and reflecting the influence of Cripps . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 27 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 28 | With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units . |
| 29 | Their hands were empty , and Alexei wondered how many people it took to move Artai from one room of the palace to another . |
| 30 | No , no it took took place in the end of March . |