Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] 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 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 8 | Positioned well away from the planned recreational activities , it promised to attract an abundance of wildlife — and so it has turned out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One last rocky outcrop of headland ; it seemed to take an age to round . |
| 14 | It seemed to take an unduly long time before it took hold . |
| 15 | It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A psychiatrist who specialises in executive stress thought the fencing indicated that the person it protected felt an enormous sense of isolation and betrayal at the hands of people who had failed to be grateful for years of selfless public service . |
| 20 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |
| 25 | So I had to wait fo at Enfield Chase for another bus and the bus from Enfield Chase yeah you go along all these piddley little so it 's from erm ten it took me it took takes an hour-and-a-half on the bus . |
| 26 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 27 | Although in terms of later social science methodologies such an approach might seem naive , it did leave an important legacy for social research and survey data collection , namely sampling . |
| 28 | Good Lord ! it did make an impression on me , reading the letters of those men . |
| 29 | I 'm sure this was a typing error but it did confuse an excellent article . |
| 30 | Yes , it did reveal an interest in her , but was she right in thinking it was a sexual one ? |