Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These restrictions , which dated from a congressional amendment to the US 1974 Trade Reform Act , effectively precluded most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status for the Soviet Union unless it agreed to relax restrictions on Jewish emigration . |
| 2 | As a result of this it failed to represent artists who , over a long period , deserved recognition . |
| 3 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to notify clients in writing of the amount and terms of commission received as a result of advice given to those clients and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 5.03 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to give notice to its Bank that all money standing to the credit of its Investment Business Client Bank Account was to be held by the firm as a trustee or agent within the terms of the regulation was reprimanded , fined £l , 000 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 4 | Where Ritualist influence was strong , this campaign achieved some success ; but it failed to eliminate monuments reflecting the mundane interests of the dead . |
| 5 | It failed to convince readers either of the case against nationalism or of that for the policies of slow African advance being put forward by the Government . |
| 6 | Last month , the IMF declared Honduras ineligible for further funds after it failed to repay debts of $16 million , bringing its overdue obligations to $26.5 million . |
| 7 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 8 | Here I am concerned to emphasize that the NIRC was required by the legislation under which it operated to make decisions which were likely to lead , and did in fact lead , to considerable and widespread political protest . |
| 9 | It guarantees to deliver parts overnight or the customer gets the parts free . |
| 10 | It guarantees to deliver parts overnight or the customer gets the part FREE . |
| 11 | Earlier , the US announced it planned to slap tariffs of 200pc on white wine and other produce from the EC because of its refusal to cut subsidies to its farmers on oil seeds . |
| 12 | It 's amazing how many hard rocking mothers are queuing up to perform this somewhat unrock and weedy indie task as soon as they find out it involves wearing things that girls wear . |
| 13 | The second type of control is therefore also necessary ; it involves drawing inferences by comparing like with like . |
| 14 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 15 | It involves setting priorities , planning your approach and tailoring your answer to the time available . |
| 16 | It involves leaving parents . |
| 17 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 18 | The second reason why playing the numbers game with female and male psychologists does not work is that it involves equating women with feminists . |
| 19 | It involves recasting sentences so that they clearly do not exclude either women or men . |
| 20 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 21 | The court found that as practice by the defendant as a consultant could not injure the plaintiffs ' professional business , the clause was too wide in that it sought to encompass activities in which the plaintiffs did not have a legitimate interest . |
| 22 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 23 | Does it make whistling noises ? |
| 24 | It offers to help companies meet the demands of new regulations and gives technical advice on how to implement pollution management in the light of IPC . |
| 25 | It made nodding dogs seem in good taste . |
| 26 | ‘ It beats buying records , eh , Rodney ? ’ laughed Branson . |
| 27 | It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans — and it beats booking drivers for speeding . |
| 28 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 29 | Its speed helps it survive to have children ; and therefore more copies of all its genes , including the gene for fast running , are passed on . |
| 30 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |