Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had somehow to reconcile conflicting opinions . |
| 2 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 3 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 4 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 5 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 6 | It had already attacked two people who escaped serious injury . |
| 7 | It had already produced great wars and upheavals ; even greater ones were to come . |
| 8 | And , where it had successfully sold Scottish products , had not re-invested the profits there . |
| 9 | It had also begun open-top chamber experiments in which pollutants are filtered from the air so that tree growth can be compared in ‘ ambient ’ ( polluted ) and clean conditions . |
| 10 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 11 | It had also drawn public criticism from Bettino Craxi , secretary of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU — formerly the Italian Socialist Party — see p. 37786 ) , who in March 1990 had indicated that an alliance with a reformed and renamed Communist Party might be possible [ see p. 37508 ] . |
| 12 | It had just happened that way . |
| 13 | A Muslim officer who recently quit the Yugoslav army claimed yesterday it had massively armed Serbian militiamen in Bosnia and co-ordinated plans to partition the republic along ethnic lines . |
| 14 | It had continually opposed socio-political change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time . |
| 15 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 16 | China had announced in November 1990 that it had recently halted such arms supplies [ see p. 37858 ] . |
| 17 | Eagle Trust ( the parent company of WS ) admitted on April 17 that it had recently shipped hydraulic equipment to Iraq which could have been used as a recoil system for a gun . |
| 18 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 19 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |
| 20 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 21 | Thorn 's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m . |
| 22 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |
| 23 | It had all happened one Sunday morning when an old man in London decided that that was how it would be . |
| 24 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 25 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |