Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 2 | Put bluntly , it did so because it failed to convince enough people it could deal with the Conservative legacy and had a plausible philosophy of wealth creation of its own . |
| 3 | FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 4 | A search beyond it failed to locate any continuance of Fleming 's Vein ( it was often called Thriddle V. ) and it became considered that Fleming 's was best regarded as a continuance of the Bonsor but shifted by the movement along the fault . |
| 5 | The problem is that while some commercial interests made a healthy profit from the '91 World Cup it failed to produce enough RWC cash to underwrite the Catania tournament , let alone the qualifying tournaments for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 6 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 7 | The FORON Hausgeraete GmbH company said it planned to build some 270,000 ‘ Clean Cooler ’ fridges this year and 300,000 in 1994 in the eastern town of Niederschmiedeberg . |
| 8 | And it goes to show these sportswomen are shrewd as well as skilled . |
| 9 | It sought to achieve some form of policy coordination in other , more economic sectors : transport in 1953 , civil aviation in 1954 , and agriculture in 1955 ( though the latter was essentially organised within the context of OEEC since Switzerland and Portugal , not then Council members , were also participants ) . |
| 10 | ‘ What does it want to do that for ? ’ |
| 11 | It offers to show that practice in its best light , to deploy some argument why law on that conception provides an adequate justification for coercion . |
| 12 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 13 | Is it designed to avoid some activity or person ? |
| 14 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 15 | Like NCR , it needs to collect more data on what they 're really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate . |
| 16 | Like NCR Corp , it needs to collect more data on what the gang is really doing , figure out the structure and find out how COSE would want DEC to participate ; also like NCR , if the effort is primarily concerned with the desktop , then DEC would not be very interested . |
| 17 | It needs to push all the air out of the water main . |
| 18 | Is it not time that we took the Agenda for Peace seriously and gave the UN the resources it needs to save this and future generations from the scourge of war . |
| 19 | ‘ It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In order to attract more users , it needs to offer more information . |
| 21 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ? |
| 22 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 23 | A single gain pot and bass , middle and treble pots are all it needs to deliver some superb clean tones , but if these sounds are too clean and a slight amount of edge is preferred , then a push switch adds in some crunch . |
| 24 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 25 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 26 | In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society . |
| 27 | As it has to pump more blood round the body to service the muscles you 're using , it will get bigger and stronger in order to do so more efficiently . |
| 28 | It has to sort these echoes out from each other . |
| 29 | Sudjic 's point is that it exists , and any attempt to plan , ameliorate or build in it has to grasp this fact . |
| 30 | Cos it has to do that . |