Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 2 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 3 | But it failed comprehensively to push through various plans for mergers between the assemblers . |
| 4 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 5 | IBM is expected to make its long anticipated move into massively parallel computing this Tuesday when it launches parallel processing machines running from eight up to 64 PowerParallel RISC/6000 processors . |
| 6 | When the box falls from the tree and hits the ground , it splits open scattering the nuts . |
| 7 | He is telling it to go now look , you see he 's put on his lights . |
| 8 | From here it turns right to follow the shore until it reaches the mouth of the River Avich . |
| 9 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 10 | When it passed there remained in the locket a face which they both looked at speechless . |
| 11 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 12 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 13 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 14 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 15 | It involves simply flushing with water , poured from any container . |
| 16 | It involves sharply cut three-piece suits , or carefully pressed Italian pastel casuals for the male , and a whole range of feminine clobber in similar icecream pastels for women , including the down-market fashion accent of summer 1984 : totally impractical white fabric ankle boots . |
| 17 | It involves sharply pulling the sail towards you which , for an instant , creates more wind and hence more power . |
| 18 | It is called ‘ safer ’ rather than ‘ safe ’ as it involves greatly reducing risk , rather than completely eliminating it . |
| 19 | It sits there going . |
| 20 | It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice — both in curriculum content and methodology . |
| 21 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 22 | It became clear talking with women that many men find it difficult to offer comfort . |
| 23 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 24 | Despite some initial uncertainty as to whether these accounts were correct , it became generally accepted ( e.g. by the US and British governments ) that chemical weapons had indeed been used by Iraq on the scale reported . |
| 25 | After 1898 the latter two of these castes were also excluded , a fact which led to protests from élite Salagamas when it became generally known . |
| 26 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 27 | However , through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists . |
| 28 | It became widely known through the book written against the Jews by Apollonius Molon , one of Cicero 's teachers . |
| 29 | DB32 , as it became colloquially known , was the long awaited planners ' guide , advising on the considerations which should be taken into account in the layout of residential roads and footpaths in new housing schemes , as well as in improvement areas . |
| 30 | Indeed , it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division . |