Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 2 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 3 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 4 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 5 | Many women realized that our trade union did n't have the support of the management and believed it could n't resolve any of our problems . |
| 6 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 7 | Last week the Soviet embassy in East Berlin even signalled it would not intervene if unrest became uncontrollable . |
| 8 | Kite was six under par when he inflicted on Clark the worst defeat in Ryder Cup singles history and in the process handed his side the initiative which for a time seemed it would n't relinquish . |
| 9 | If things were as they seemed it would n't matter . |
| 10 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 11 | I regret that the committee decided it would not approve funding as detailed in your application . |
| 12 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
| 13 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 14 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
| 15 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and Hewlett agreed to support a common position Sun decided it could n't resist , especially with Novell Inc nudging it on . |
| 16 | In its need to show a determination to repatriate boat people , the Government decided it could not wait to send the volunteers home first . |
| 17 | Recently one bank , Mitsui Taiyo Kobe International , warned it might not satisfy the Bank of International Settlements ' capital requirements . |
| 18 | But the way he delivered it would not have disgraced your average member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 19 | O&Y 's liquidity crisis meant it could not repay the holders when they refused to roll over the commercial paper . |
| 20 | Anyone who saw it will not have forgotten it . |
| 21 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 22 | I do n't know why , but I felt it would not work in my situation . |
| 23 | But when I left , I just felt it would n't happen , the politics were n't right . |
| 24 | the motif has many single stitches and I felt it would n't work at all in single-bed Fair Isle . |
| 25 | If the school felt it could not cope with Balbinder then maybe he would be better in a more sympathetic environment . |
| 26 | The association felt it could not undertake this work but would seek the help of the local Scouts . |
| 27 | The association felt it could not undertake this work but would seek the help of the local Scouts . |
| 28 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 29 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 30 | There 's no guarantee that whoever sent it wo n't follow up those written threats with actual physical violence . |