Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 2 | One entire wall was constructed as a glass cliff down which fell a waterfall some six feet wide ; the pool into which it tumbled smoked with spray and the whole effect was disconcerting , as of some plumbing disaster on a majestic scale . |
| 3 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 4 | Last month it agreed to spend £194.2m on the US-based ABS cheque-printing business . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But earlier this month , the PAC appeared to have abandoned armed struggle when it agreed to attend next month 's renewed multi-party constitutional talks . |
| 7 | When the Cork County Council planning committee met later that month it agreed to hold further consultations with local residents . |
| 8 | In September 1990 Vietnam appeared to accept in principle the concept of " involuntary repatriation " , when it agreed to take back " economic migrants " who , " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " . |
| 9 | Further , it agreed to form a club and to do so in accordance with a ‘ sub-committee ’ report on the rules governing bondholders . |
| 10 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 11 | Eventually , however , in May 1988 it signed a new agreement with the IMF , under which , in return for a supply of new foreign loans , it agreed to relax foreign exchange controls and open an effective foreign exchange market . |
| 12 | These restrictions , which dated from a congressional amendment to the US 1974 Trade Reform Act , effectively precluded most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status for the Soviet Union unless it agreed to relax restrictions on Jewish emigration . |
| 13 | However , when the results of the referendum were known , it agreed to participate in the new system . |
| 14 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 15 | For instance it agreed to abolish the slave trade . |
| 16 | Guinea-Bissau stood to gain 600 million dollars — twice its foreign debt — when it agreed to bury 15 million tons of Philadelphia 's municipal ash . |
| 17 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 18 | The government remained reluctant to recognize UNITA until it agreed to end its destabilization campaign , while UNITA would not commit itself to ending hostilities until its future political role was guaranteed . |
| 19 | THE Scottish Office was accused of ‘ landlordism of the sea ’ yesterday when it agreed to end common fishing rights in part of Loch Crinan . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , it agreed to postpone until 1994 the negotiation of a new agreement between tropical timber producers and consumers . |
| 25 | On June 2 , 1990 , the Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) held its third national congress when it agreed to expand the forum 's presidium to 19 members . |
| 26 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 27 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 28 | It make take several weeks before you win — but you will , I am sure , eventually be victorious . |
| 29 | Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area . |
| 30 | The purchaser will use its reasonable endeavours to obtain the release of any personal guarantees made by the Directors in respect of ABC and its subsidiary companies ' existing obligations relating to the business of ABC and subsidiaries ( which after investigating such guarantees and terms of release it agrees to obtain the release of ) and pending such release will indemnify the Directors against any claims under such guarantees . |