Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 2 | The problem in relation to whether the car was new arose because , before the car was delivered to the dealer , it had suffered some damage in a collision in a compound . |
| 3 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 4 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 5 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 8 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 9 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 10 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 11 | It had projected total spending at SR143,000 million ( $38,100 million ) , and a deficit of SR25,000 million ( $6,700 million ) . |
| 12 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 13 | The Colombian government announced on June 1 that it had granted diplomatic asylum to the former President ( in 1985-1990 ) , Alan García Pérez , the secretary-general of Peru 's American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) . |
| 14 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 15 | One member , Marin Buble , said that although the document was praised by politicians , it had received unprecedented criticism from experts and professionals , since the proposed system of property ownership was inconsistent , there was no clear stand on what kind of political pluralism the party advocated and there was no indication on how the party 's de-monopolization would be effected . |
| 16 | An unworthy book in many ways , indeed in all perceivable ways , it had engaged one reader in that intimate way that we associate with capital L ‘ Literature ’ . |
| 17 | It had lost all faith in China ; it had sided against the leadership which had prevailed ; and now , in its hour of need , it found no prospect of comfort from its own supposedly sovereign power , Britain . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 19 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 20 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 21 | Many unexplained and ignored results still litter the research journals of the early 1970s , unread and unconsidered because as a research paradigm memory transfer is no longer taken seriously ; it had become another victim of scientific fashion , though , unlike McIlwain 's slices , this time probably deservedly . |
| 22 | It had interrupted another part in a provincial theatre . |
| 23 | Then , it had added another stamp of ‘ difference ’ on a child whose father rarely appeared in the family home and who spent most of her free time in the company of paid supervisors . |
| 24 | No wonder the Government of the day tried to conceal that it had spent public money on bringing some dotty lady down from her high table to tell us what it is to want what we want . |
| 25 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 26 | E&Y vehemently denied the allegations , saying it had provided adequate warning of the plan 's collapse , and claiming that the suit was filed in order to deflect criticism away from the insurance commissioner . |
| 27 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |
| 28 | It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions . |
| 29 | Memento Mori was in no sense new in the teaching of the churches , but it had acquired fresh importance in the light of the conversion experience , which was a central feature of the religious revival . |
| 30 | Every Member I interviewed believed that television had increased public interest in Parliament and most thought it had improved public understanding of how the Commons works , It is even more important , however , that the House should be televised so that the public can follow the actual matters being debated in Parliament . |