Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 5 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 8 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 9 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 10 | During the afternoon , it announced that it would auction a new stock later in the month , providing an expected further £2 billion to £3 billion , to start funding the public sector borrowing requirement , which is forecast at £28 billion for this year . |
| 11 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 12 | Recently it announced that it is to begin testing all personal computers assembled in Russia from imported components . |
| 13 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 14 | Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 15 | Storage Technology Corp sprang a surprise after the markets closed on Thursday last week when it announced that it would be buying privately-held would-be competitor in the disk array business , Chatsworth , California-based Amperif Corp . |
| 16 | Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 17 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 18 | It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 19 | Last August BML called on publishers to submit a smaller , more selective number of titles , and it announced that it was compiling a ‘ top title ’ list for the winter sale . |
| 20 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 21 | After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid . |
| 22 | Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers . |
| 23 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 24 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 25 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 26 | Those who advocated it argued that it was of no use to abolish selection at 11 + , in the name of justice and fairness , and then reintroduce selection a few months later , by streaming children once at school . |
| 27 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 28 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 29 | I mean how far extra it moved because it was accelerating . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |