Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on May 20 it agreed to allow a UN observer team , comprising 10 security guards , to enter Dahuk to ensure the safety of returning refugees . |
| 2 | Further , it agreed to form a club and to do so in accordance with a ‘ sub-committee ’ report on the rules governing bondholders . |
| 3 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |
| 4 | The committee reported that all teams had completed the tasks successfully and it agreed to initial a protocol of the joint inspection at the third session to be held in Beijing in November . |
| 5 | The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday . |
| 6 | It failed to foster an independent , bourgeois culture . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The Security Council vote on Croatia , a unanimous 15-0 , came after a lengthy debate in which Russia called for sanctions against the former Yugoslav republic if it failed to honour a peace agreement signed a year ago . |
| 9 | RTC says the suit was filed against AA when it failed to negotiate an out-of-court settlement . |
| 10 | But the Panel seems to have concluded that it failed to give a true and fair view . |
| 11 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 12 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 13 | It failed to create a genuinely corporate approach towards the problems of a single , major conurbation . |
| 14 | But the club was still under threat and hit a low point last year when it failed to field a team for the 1991 season . |
| 15 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 16 | On 19 May this year Edmund Peel , Madrid , offered a major portrait of the court embroiderer Juan López de Robredo with an estimate of Pta200,000 million ( £1.11 million ; $1.93 million ) , but it failed to find a buyer . |
| 17 | When the agreement in the present case was made , it failed to grant an estate in the land . |
| 18 | Midland also admitted failing to supervise the fund managers to prevent them concentrating their stock holdings too narrowly and that it failed to maintain a register of the holders of six of the trusts or the amount of their holdings . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It asked the Stock Exchange to freeze dealings in its shares at 47.5p , valuing the company which is based at Romford , Essex , at £439 million , after it failed to pay a preference share dividend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Receivers called in to keep the shipbuilding company afloat after it failed to win a Ministry of Defence helicopter carrier order were meeting union officials this morning . |
| 23 | For instance , there is a shared student common room , shared toilet facilities for all students ( there is one adapted toilet/bathroom ) , and equal access to facilities such as the juke box ( donated by the Students ' Union , but removed when it failed to show a profit ! ) and the vending machines . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 27 | Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |