Example sentences of "it had [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 2 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 3 | As the largest single party in the upper chamber , however , the LDP could have commanded an overall majority if it had secured the support of Komeito . |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 5 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 6 | It had crossed the border into Belgium before police could seal the town ; at a press conference there were denials that border security had been lax . |
| 7 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 8 | You could n't say the free food and drink or the luxuriously appointed cabins had bought her , but it had affected the tone of her pieces . |
| 9 | Having , with spectacular lack of vision , left the door open to the Japanese in the early BMC-British Leyland doldrum management days , Land Rover 's lethargic parent suddenly realised it had missed the boat in a rapidly expanding market sector , and did something about it . |
| 10 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |
| 11 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 12 | Thus , recognition by Her Majesty 's Government was the decisive matter and the courts had no role save to inquire of the executive whether or not it had recognised the government in question . |
| 13 | Coastal erosion , the advance of the sands , had interested him insofar as it had destroyed the estate of a landowner who then chose to relinquish the property rather than pay the requisite taxes . |
| 14 | The Supreme Soviet immediately approved the decree , in contrast to its response in October 1991 when it had overturned the state of emergency imposed by the Russian administration in an attempt to subdue a rebellion in Chechnia [ see p. 38582-83 ] . |
| 15 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 16 | Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs . |
| 17 | A delicately graceful turtle dove fanned its tail and purred its soporific summer song — ‘ Rrroorrrrr , rrroorrrrrr ’ — from the top of an oak tree ; a much persecuted bird , it had run the gauntlet of continental guns and arrived safely . |
| 18 | Carolyn could hear the hissing of the sand as it fell on to the plastic and then , when it had covered the bottom of the carton , the way it fell almost silently , with a whisper of its former sound . |
| 19 | Splashes of it had hit the wall behind the basin and there were three oval blots of it on the floor . |
| 20 | This move would have been scientific if , for example , it had involved the prediction of a new kind of aberration in such a way that the existence of the new aberration could be tested by optical experiments . |
| 21 | It had involved the use of a symbol and a photograph to produce a novel communicative request to go to a very specific location , and one that he could not request at his keyboard alone . |
| 22 | It had observed the Vessel from afar , peering through the lens in the moon , tracking the human dot through the sandscape . |
| 23 | It called on Libya to show with " concrete measures " that it had renounced the use of terrorist methods . |
| 24 | The official Libyan news agency JANA issued a statement on May 14 to the effect that Libya would take three steps in order to comply with that part of UN Security Council Resolution 748 of March 1992 which had called on Libya to take concrete measure showing that it had renounced the use of " terrorism " [ see pp. 38839 ; 38884 ] . |
| 25 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 26 | It was a pleasure to discover that it had escaped the sort of wholesale restoration so commonly carried out in the earlier part of this century . |
| 27 | The Turkish government , which had announced the intended diversion on Nov. 20 , 1989 , rejected the complaint , pointing to the fact that it had increased the supply of water to Iraq and Syria by 50 per cent between November and January to compensate for the loss of water in January-February . |
| 28 | In combination with the raids , the Israeli Army announced that it had increased the number of soldiers deployed in the West Bank by 20 per cent . |
| 29 | For Business Post there was the added complication that as a franchise operator , it had to sell the concept to its franchisees . |
| 30 | But it had served the purpose of making Jane know about her |