Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Panel seems to have concluded that it failed to give a true and fair view . |
| 2 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 3 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 4 | It lacked industrial power , but alienated its neighbour and allies alike by attempting to rectify this ; it failed to maintain a democratic government , yet under the circumstances it was highly unlikely that any state could have done so . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the nature of the relationship was always contested , and ultimately it failed to produce a lasting system of part-time day continuation schools . |
| 6 | But here as elsewhere , though the emphasis on cost and utility was helpful in curbing bureaucratic empire-builders , it failed to provide a full definition of the public service which should be provided . |
| 7 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 8 | A more penetrating comment on the statutory test advanced in that 1959 Report was that it sought to control a mere ‘ tendency ’ . |
| 9 | The crime bill was opposed largely because it sought to enact a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns , while the education legislation , which aimed at upgrading the country 's schools , was opposed by Republicans following a congressional decision to remove an administration proposal to provide government vouchers to assist parents in sending their children to private schools . |
| 10 | Freshly scrubbed necks turned to follow the pounding locomotive as it fought to lift a heavy freight up the bank some 500 yards over to our left . |
| 11 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |
| 12 | I would say that the CNAA was responsible for establishing the arts in higher education , first as subjects valid for higher education , and second as subjects valuable to the country , in other words it helped to establish a national reputation for the arts at this level , which had never existed before . |
| 13 | A critical examination of the Soviet past , as in Andreeva 's letter , was a necessary part of perestroika in that it helped to provide a better , clearer picture of the way forward . |
| 14 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 15 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 16 | And his kiss when it came had a new depth and intensity born of the freedom they had both found during the past moments . |
| 17 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 18 | It came to occupy a unique place in constitutional law . |
| 19 | It seemed to embody a deep dislike , and she found that wounding . |
| 20 | In the twilight it seemed to shine a pale , opalescent blue , nearly white . |
| 21 | The bicycle was a powerful symbol of social change in this era , summing up so easily the fears brewing around popular freedoms and popular amusements , and it seemed to touch a brittle nerve of the process of democratisation . |
| 22 | It seemed to promise a new beginning , almost a new birth . |
| 23 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 24 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 25 | When I mentioned Spain , it seemed to make a big difference . |
| 26 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 27 | It seemed to bring a coppery taste to her mouth . |
| 28 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |
| 29 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 30 | It seemed to show a complete disregard for the laws of Galileo , Newton and Einstein , moving through the atmosphere like an otter in pursuit of a fish . |