Example sentences of "it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun says Addamax — a vendor to Sun — asked for a loan guarantee , and it agreed because the suit raised serious issues . |
| 2 | It failed because the frequency and intensity of the odour , which constituted the nuisance , was over and above the ‘ general background of oily smells ’ , and had not unlike these general smells , continued for anything approaching 20 years . |
| 3 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 4 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 5 | It failed because in 1219 the Bishop of Salisbury founded New Salisbury , eight miles to the north on a better site . |
| 6 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 7 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 8 | Second , it failed because of its bureaucratic and institutional nature . |
| 9 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 10 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |
| 11 | There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best . |
| 12 | How it operated provided an intriguing study to which much detailed work was devoted . |
| 13 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |
| 14 | we did actually try as part of those tests although not reflected in that particular figure , er moving it to see whether we could encourage that er a different effect . |
| 15 | I said I was flashing it to see if the window was all right . |
| 16 | Do n't stick to a single time each day but try to vary it to see if the time of day makes a difference for you . |
| 17 | If you use a videocassette recorder with this facility , check it to see if it has a socket you can plug a microphone into . |
| 18 | Lyn and I have been over and over it to see if there was anything we could have done but that kind of abuse gives very few signs . |
| 19 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 20 | I have enclosed a copy and would be most grateful if you could find the time to scan through it to see if I have made any errors of fact or tactics . |
| 21 | Our head of department put it all together and then let us read it to see if there was anything we wished to change and add and then submitted it … |
| 22 | What do you think influenced you , I mean if you went to choose a chair did you sit on it to see if it was comfortable or were you more interested in what it looked like ? |
| 23 | I would say I think that 's a very good point chairman now can we ask perhaps either our groundsman or or or whatever to look at it to see if something to make it safer for these these people to er get access to . |
| 24 | We could test it to see if we get an output , we do n't but we could do , there 's no need because all we have to do in effect is just set the weights of the decoders that are actually coming out . |
| 25 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 26 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 27 | Yeah ours is in airing , you 've got to bend down and look at it to see if light 's on . |
| 28 | you 've just bought a car or you 've got a car you can take it and the police look over it to see if it 's alright . |
| 29 | We 'll have to look into it to see if we ca n't manage it . |
| 30 | Yeah I mean the would be very nice if you could get it to go cos it is it is quite acceptable speech . |