Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 2 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 3 | The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 . |
| 4 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 5 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |
| 6 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 7 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 8 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 9 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 10 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 11 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 12 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 13 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 14 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |
| 15 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 16 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |
| 17 | The FAO forestry department admitted that it has had problems meeting demand , which had far exceeded expectations . |
| 18 | When , in this situation , the person defamed sought to issue a writ , and the Member concerned asked the House of Commons to treat the matter as a breach of privilege , the Committee of Privileges recommended that it do so but the House , by a small majority , rejected this recommendation . |
| 19 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 20 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 21 | Grumman veterans bear the scars from the company 's many setbacks , especially the export triumph Grumman scored when it sold lots of F-14 Tomcats to Iran under the shah . |
| 22 | Although only twenty-two houses were represented the syndicat recognised that it stood for the rights of some sixty Champagne houses , virtually the entire trade at the time . |
| 23 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 24 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 25 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 26 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 27 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 28 | Public Information Minister Choi Chang Yoon claimed that it had turned the tide in the government 's struggle with the latest wave of student unrest , the worst to have been experienced by the Roh administration . |
| 29 | After the awards were announced , The Saturday Review commented that it gave ‘ the impression of an overgrown hotel at a watering place , with one of Wren 's city spires perched on its north-west angle next the parade , to hold the dinner-bell ’ . |
| 30 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |