Example sentences of "[subord] it had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 2 | Although it had demanded such changes , the opposition criticized the government 's alleged failure to consult adequately , with PDS members boycotting the session at which the legislation was approved . |
| 3 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 4 | The very thing for which the bourgeoisie strove , profit , ceased to be an adequate motivation once it had brought sufficient wealth . |
| 5 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 6 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 7 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 8 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 9 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 10 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 11 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 12 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 13 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 14 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 15 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 16 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 17 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 18 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 19 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |
| 20 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 21 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 23 | His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before . |
| 24 | The Bush administration was reluctant to forgive Africa 's debt , even though it had pushed commercial banks towards solving part of the debt problem in Latin America . |
| 25 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 26 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 27 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |