Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it failed to smother the flames but travelled on through the window , coming to rest on Mr Singh 's Bentley , causing an estimated £567 worth of damage . |
| 2 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 3 | And power which is generated there goes to heat and light the city of Niagara , and some of it goes to cook the dinners in the city of Toronto , and some of it heats the homes in the city of Buffalo . |
| 4 | It sought to improve the conditions of a Sept. 5 decree law , which had offered lenient sentencing to some traffickers and a more " discretionary " attitude to extradition . |
| 5 | When Chetnik came to appreciate this it sought to reclaim the rates it had paid under section 9 of the Act of 1967 . |
| 6 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 7 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 8 | It needs to cover the essentials of self-management : diet , insulin , type and duration of action , injection timing and technique , measuring blood glucose and the normal range , hypoglycaemia , exercise and illness . |
| 9 | If trust is to establish itself again , it has to do so by such devious and long-winded means , and it has to use the tools of its antitype . |
| 10 | If you are installing a new bathroom , it has to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations . |
| 11 | ‘ If a company is serious about stress then it has to address the issues raised , ’ commented , a chartered clinical psychologist working as a consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick , especially if it emerges that certain internal working practices and management are the major factors in staff stress levels . |
| 12 | The obligation of the target to repay lenders or loan capital in the event of a takeover could result in a dramatic increase in the cost of the bid for the offeror if it has to find the funds itself to enable the target to meet the repayment obligation . |
| 13 | It may need more general contextual information to discriminate between words , yet it has to provide the words that determine that context . |
| 14 | And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists . |
| 15 | Position this row so it starts to fill the spaces between the first tufts to give good coverage . |
| 16 | And so it starts to uncover the difficulties about psychologists which conventional psychology tries to ignore . |
| 17 | This report Mr Chairman is already history which is as Mr has said not to say it does n't represent progress , it addresses for the first time the historical issues , it starts to address the lessons of the first quarter . |
| 18 | Edinburgh says it wants to use the proceeds to provide an endowment for the care of the remainder of the Torrie collection and for other fine art works . |
| 19 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager ; moreover , Santa Cruz is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation to run over Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 20 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager . |
| 21 | Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory . |
| 22 | Then , said Miss Cliff , he was made to hand back £48 it cost to buy the rolls . |
| 23 | And how many men did it need to ring the bells ? |
| 24 | As such it helped to improve the prospects of Kim 's anticipated campaign for the presidency in late 1992 or early 1993 . |
| 25 | It was all very well picking at the past like this if it helped to exorcise the demons , but he was n't sure that was what William wanted . |
| 26 | It helped to swell the takings considerably : Profit £486 from tickets and £124 from Green Shield stamps making a grand total of £610 . |
| 27 | Bull says that it plans to release a Windows 3.1 version by the end of the year . |
| 28 | At the start it seemed to improve the matches but it , they 've just become too hectic now I think . |
| 29 | Thirdly it seemed to represent the beginnings of the healing of the relationship between God and humanity . |
| 30 | The Pill seemed to symbolise the free woman — sexy and single , and so it seemed to prefigure the women 's liberation movement 's quest for pleasure and independence . |