Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed to foster an independent , bourgeois culture . |
| 2 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 3 | RTC says the suit was filed against AA when it failed to negotiate an out-of-court settlement . |
| 4 | When the agreement in the present case was made , it failed to grant an estate in the land . |
| 5 | The EC stated in the final declaration that it expected to implement an offer to remove or reduce duties on tropical products " once a satisfactory balanced conclusion has been reached in the Uruguay Round " . |
| 6 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 7 | Positioned well away from the planned recreational activities , it promised to attract an abundance of wildlife — and so it has turned out . |
| 8 | It happened when a Chipmunk light aircraft from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire hit the ground as it tried to make an emergency landing in Wales . |
| 9 | A robotic dispenser arm was whirring nervously and jabbing into Bernice 's neck as it tried to locate an item that was n't there from a shelf that had been removed . |
| 10 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 11 | It seemed to take an unreasonably long time and much bad temper , evasion and deliberate obfuscation , together with consultation of a diary that appeared to be alternately blank and covered with scribbled hieroglyphics . |
| 12 | One last rocky outcrop of headland ; it seemed to take an age to round . |
| 13 | It seemed to take an unduly long time before it took hold . |
| 14 | It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock . |
| 15 | Some could even accept Spencer 's philosophy of progress through struggle , because it seemed to offer an updated version of the Protestant work ethic in which thrift and industry were rewarded in this world as well as the next . |
| 16 | It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline . |
| 17 | When the Department of Industry announced its " Microcomputers in schools " , scheme in 1980 , it seemed to Provide an opportunity for Promoting the use of the microcomputer in school libraries and through that further to promote the school library . |
| 18 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 19 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 20 | During his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata , he was assured that Japan would continue to support India if it decided to seek an extended funding facility from the IMF . |
| 21 | It appeared to have an irresistible momentum for growth demanded by its one million employees and supported by public opinion . |
| 22 | The new Government needed strength , for without Austen Chamberlain , Balfour , Birkenhead or Horne it looked weak on paper , and it had to face an immediate general election . |
| 23 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 24 | Between 1613 and 1622 the Zemsky sobor , in which the pomeshchiks predominated , was generally summoned at least once a year and it continued to play an important consultative role until 1653 . |
| 25 | At Chelsea they burned coal in winter as it tended to give an even heat , whereas wood burned too quickly and peat had a strong smell . |
| 26 | In order to protect its position , the UK government announced on Sept. 3 that it intended to borrow an amount equivalent to 10,000 million European currency units ( US$1.00=ECU1.434 at that stage ) in currencies which would be sold for sterling through the foreign exchange market in addition to any normal market intervention . |