Example sentences of "[subord] it had [vb pp] [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 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 . |
| 6 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 9 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 10 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 11 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 12 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |