Example sentences of "[Wh det] it had " in BNC.
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1 | After jilting Touche Ross , with which it had planned a worldwide merger , it married its UK practice with the UK practice of Coopers & Lybrand . |
2 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
3 | The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party . |
4 | Hardly any of the studies of the crisis go on to consider why the National Government broke the specific pledges upon which it had been formed and went to the country as a government in an election which bore some considerable resemblance to the ‘ coupon election ’ of 1918 . |
5 | It was called a departmental agency , but the constraints of trying to be fully integrated with a major department like the Department of the Environment meant that the theoretical freedom to manage , which it had started off with , very quickly disappeared . |
6 | Government was particularly anxious that neither group should retain the relative economic dominance which it had acquired during the colonial period , and exchange rate management was one means by which this dominance could be restrained . |
7 | The division of classes , however , goes on increasing and it finally undermines the society in which it had arisen . |
8 | The innocence of the encounter , and the sharp pitch of emotional stress to which it had brought him , were significant factors in Vincent 's response . |
9 | The Académie Française , that illustrious guardian of the French language , set up by Richelieu in 1635 , last week in effect buried the very reform for which it had voted unanimously nine months earlier . |
10 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
11 | Another British merchant bank , Kleinwort Benson , owned up to writing off loans totalling $23m which it had sunk into an American partnership controlled by one of its directors . |
12 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
13 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
14 | Quite rightly , the Labour Party did not wish to exaggerate the importance of a fringe political group which it had investigated in a detailed national survey , based upon a circular to the secretaries of its constituency organizations in 1934 . |
15 | ‘ But apparently the street lights had come on and their electric glare was filtered through the torn mesh of dusty leaves , giving an elegance to the street which it had otherwise forgotten . |
16 | But the street lights had come on and their electric glare filtered through the dusty leaves to give an elegance to the street which it had long since forgotten . |
17 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
18 | In June 1989 Nagy was reburied , his body being extracted from the common grave into which it had been thrown . |
19 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |
20 | Weir got out of commodity , or off-the-shelf , engineering goods , which it had been making almost since it was founded by the family in 1871 , seeing them as too sensitive to changes to domestic demand and expensive to produce compared with international competitors . |
21 | The company said the results are likely to include an £8½m exceptional loss resulting from the appointment of administrative receivers to its client , Quietwater , with which it had a contract to build a hotel and leisure complex on a golf course development in Essex . |
22 | Earlier this month , preliminary findings from an investigation by Kenneth Randall found that the Gooda Walker agency may have overstated its syndicates ' profits between 1981 and 1988 through the use of time and distance policies , about which it had failed to inform its auditors in at least one syndicate . |
23 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
24 | In his view , the letter should be used to show that the Board 's policy in the one county in which it had been implemented for at least two years was a misconceived , divisive one . |
25 | This much should be clear after the Bundesbank under Pöhl was forced to accept Federal Government policy not only on the principle of German Monetary Union but also on the exchange rate , both of which it had initially resisted . |
26 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
27 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
28 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
29 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
30 | However , while most Arab states might have gone along with this ( if only to worst Abdallah ) , it was clear that Jordan would not contemplate the loss of the gains for which it had gone to war . |