Example sentences of "[noun] it had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
| 2 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 3 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 4 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 5 | The NSP said that as a result of the discovery it had arrested 62 people on charges of violating the National Security Law and the Military Secrets Protection Law . |
| 6 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 7 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 8 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 9 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 10 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 11 | All in all , it was a fitting country seat for a magnate ; even before the rebuilding it had needed 160 servants to run the house and grounds . |
| 12 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 13 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 14 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 15 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 16 | By the end of the century it had sold 1,250,000 copies and unlike Allon 's own collection of hymns , it had been an official publication , part of the growth in musical taste and improved choirs . |
| 17 | By the end of September that year it had sold 100,000 copies . |
| 18 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 19 | By early April it had sold 1,000 companies out of a total of over 8,000 . |
| 20 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 21 | At that time it had commanded fine views : south all the way to the river ; north and west over the lush pastures of the region towards the tiny village of Hampstead . |
| 22 | This below-par performance was partly reflected in our share price , which fell sharply in the summer , [ though in line with the market it had recovered some ground by the year-end ] If , by Feb 11 , the price is on the way down , omit words in [ ] |