Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it agreed that negotiations with Henry VIII for the marriage of Mary and Edward should begin . |
| 2 | Consider the dispute over fox hunting and suppose it agreed that the pleasure of men , hounds and perhaps horses , outweigh the pain of the fox . |
| 3 | C 224 , p. 3 ) , it agreed that it was lawful to require undertakings operating fishing vessels to maintain a representation on shore in the flag state . |
| 4 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 5 | Sun says Addamax — a vendor to Sun — asked for a loan guarantee , and it agreed because the suit raised serious issues . |
| 6 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 7 | Never once have I dipped a finger into that money-bag , however fat it bulged and however heavy it weighed ; it was always brought straight home to you … every farthing that crossed my palm . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It failed because in 1219 the Bishop of Salisbury founded New Salisbury , eight miles to the north on a better site . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 14 | Second , it failed because of its bureaucratic and institutional nature . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 18 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 19 | There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best . |
| 20 | How it operated provided an intriguing study to which much detailed work was devoted . |
| 21 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 22 | It checked and looked at her . |
| 23 | It succeeded because Sigibert II was extremely young , while Chlothar II was well established . |
| 24 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 25 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 26 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 27 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 28 | Perplexed , Ashley looked at him , then it registered that as she had been astonished to see him so he was equally stunned to see her . |
| 29 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 30 | And it revealed that profits jumped from just £700,000 to £3,500,000 in six months . |