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 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the Panel seems to have concluded that it failed to give a true and fair view . |
| 8 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 9 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 10 | It failed to create a genuinely corporate approach towards the problems of a single , major conurbation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A more penetrating comment on the statutory test advanced in that 1959 Report was that it sought to control a mere ‘ tendency ’ . |
| 26 | It sought to create a business , perhaps a rentier , culture . |
| 27 | The crime bill was opposed largely because it sought to enact a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns , while the education legislation , which aimed at upgrading the country 's schools , was opposed by Republicans following a congressional decision to remove an administration proposal to provide government vouchers to assist parents in sending their children to private schools . |
| 28 | Freshly scrubbed necks turned to follow the pounding locomotive as it fought to lift a heavy freight up the bank some 500 yards over to our left . |
| 29 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 30 | The third initiative was somewhat different from all the proceedings one , in that it involved joining a Community Club sponsored by the Alvey Programme . |