Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management could be faced ‘ with severe economic losses if it failed to take into account their views , or to win their consent on issues which were felt to be of major importance by the workforce ’ ( p. 314 ) . |
| 2 | Given all this , a chapter about kitchens and kitchen decoration would be illogical to say the least , if it failed to take into account the room or area where food is served , which should bc as pleasant a place as possible . |
| 3 | Will the Minister confirm that the office in Newcastle upon Tyne is in the habit of pricing its community care grants in two well-known catalogue shops and that unfortunately it failed to spot in April 1991 that the Government had increased value added tax ? |
| 4 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 5 | It failed to warn of Russia 's ability to build an atomic , and later a nuclear , bomb . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the DGSE may have unofficially told MI6 what it planned to do in New Zealand . |
| 7 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 8 | It neglects to take into account the possibility that people might also attach a comparable value to environmental protection , and similarly fails to attach a value to the contribution vehicles make to acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 9 | It sought to provide for workers ' retirement by broad , diversified investment in the American economy , that is , in equities . |
| 10 | The first question to ask is how much time does it want to spend on music overall ? |
| 11 | Playing with a puppy for a period beforehand often helps to make it want to sleep at night . |
| 12 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 13 | It must be awful thing and of course you tend if , if you have n't got it to tend to think for god sake , you know it 's a , it 's a nice day |
| 14 | However , the C , C E C feels it needs to consult with regions , it needs more closely to examine the point in question and we would ask for reference of that resolution . |
| 15 | They replaces Reflex Actions ( S4 ) to which , in fact , it needs to stand in contrast . |
| 16 | And again to spell that out erm the way it needs to work in practice I believe is that in its local plan a local authority should be able to define a site which it would regard as suitable for development only for these strategically important reasons . |
| 17 | Now the town is going for the big one , but to get the title Entente Florale , it needs to beat off competition from seven other nations . |
| 18 | If he rules in favour of the Agency , it stands to collect from employers additional NICs estimated at nearly £50m . |
| 19 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 20 | It has to go to Chris ? |
| 21 | The SSAFA is in close touch with the Department at all times and we listen to what it has to say about problems associated with housing and everything else . |
| 22 | Gartner has focused on the mid-range — apart from the money it has to spend on consultancy one assumes — because it believes the ‘ heritage of open systems has been to solve mid-range problems . ’ |
| 23 | It has to do with Italy 's terrifying national public deficit , estimated at L 34,000 billion , which on 26 May led to the money voted by Parliament at the end of January being frozen until October ; this means , for example , that Venice , Italy 's most fragile urban and artistic organism , which was to have had L450 billion spent on its infrastructure this year , is once again unable , for example , to dredge its canals , essential if the city is to avoid being flooded next time there is a high tide . |
| 24 | It has to do with land as well as landscape , and the right to farm in a time-honoured way . ’ |
| 25 | It has to do with general properties , certainly , but also it has to do with ranges of them . |
| 26 | It has to do with music . |
| 27 | It is possible that it has to do with cannibalism . |
| 28 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 29 | And it has to do with bed hygiene , for you do n't become allergic to the mite — you become allergic to the mite 's dung . |
| 30 | I think part of it has to do with recognition — I remember listening to my own grandmother 's mysterious pronouncements — and part with a renewed sense of the strangeness of it . |