Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 12 , 1990 , the European Court of Justice ordered the German government to suspend a road levy of up to DM9,000 which it had imposed since April on heavy trucks from other countries , on the grounds that it discriminated against other countries . |
| 2 | Everard stood up , embarrassed by her lack of control ; the family trait had skipped him by , but it had surfaced in Kit with a vengeance , and of course , as he might have expected , been compounded in Kit 's daughter by Astrid 's capriciousness . |
| 3 | Deutsche Bank , which arranged a Dm100m issue , and Geneva-based Warburg Soditic , which led two Swiss franc bonds , followed an example set by Credit Suisse which on Tuesday called the four issues it had arranged in Switzerland into default . |
| 4 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 5 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 6 | The Nauruan government , which was unhappy at being forced to pay A$21,000,000 for the phosphate facilities which it had inherited after independence from the British Phosphate Commissioners ( BPC — established by the governments of the Australia , New Zealand and United Kingdom ) never accepted that the matter had been settled . |
| 7 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 8 | It was strange to Fenella to know that presently the night would begin to die and that the pale grey and pink streaks of the new day would start to lighten the sky as it had done on Renascia before the Star Maps changed and the Dark Lodestar had sent out its hungry beckoning . |
| 9 | Inflation would have some good effects , they felt ; it would impoverish the rentiers , reduce the burden of the national debt ( as it had done in France after World War I ) and transfer purchasing power to successful new businessmen and workers . |
| 10 | The USA had been under great pressure not to veto the sending of a UN mission , as it had done in May following the Rishon Le Zion massacre of Palestinian labourers [ see p. 37443 ] . |
| 11 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 12 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
| 13 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |
| 14 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 15 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 16 | It had been dominated throughout its history by the Soviet Union , as the largest partner , but it had lost in significance after 1988 , with political changes in its East European member countries and a growing dependence on trade and investment from Western Europe . |
| 17 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 18 | The world depression further demoralized the labour movement , as it had begun in Britain under a Labour government and struck hardest at the major centres of unionism and Labour support . |
| 19 | The faintly mocking tone in his voice forced her back to reality , and she snatched her hand away from his hair as though it had come into contact with burning oil . |
| 20 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 21 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 23 | The tunnelling was necessitated by having to rediscover the channel of the watercourse after it had come by pipe from the millpond above and turned the wheel . |
| 24 | It had dropped in price by £100 , and it was time to enter the computer age . |
| 25 | The government could claim with some truth that it had forced through changes in managerial behaviour so that concepts like efficiency , cost-effectiveness and productivity were accorded more weight in the organisational culture . |
| 26 | One bottle had been flung against the wall where it had exploded in shards of glass and a bloody , dribbling splash . |
| 27 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |
| 28 | How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know . |
| 29 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 30 | HALIFAX Property Services has moved to impressive new premises at 124a Upper Lisburn Road in the heart of Finaghy 's busy shopping area , having outgrown other premises which it had occupied in Finaghy for years . |