Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 2 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 3 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 4 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 5 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 6 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 7 | But another union blames bad management on Dowty 's part , and says Dowty Fuel Sytems would have shut down anyway if it had n't been sold . |
| 8 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 9 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 10 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 11 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 12 | ECOMOG officials , however , categorically denied Taylor 's claim that Ulimo had been able to advance so rapidly because it had received aid from countries contributing to the ECOMOG force . |
| 13 | The evening ended less amiably than it had begun , and no one thought of the wombat until a late hour , and then it had disappeared . |
| 14 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 15 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 16 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 17 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 18 | Moreover , in spite of nineteenth-century changes in their constitutions — and Great Britain 's had changed none the less radically because it had not changed violently — all these states were old , their consolidation achieved well before 1815 . |
| 19 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 20 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 21 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 22 | This is so even though it had absolutely no contractual effect and operated to non-one 's detriment . |
| 23 | Many of the greatest treasures in National Trust houses would have been sold abroad long ago if it had not been for the ‘ in lieu ’ system , which was established in 1956 and which enabled private owners to give works of art to the nation in lieu of capital taxes . |
| 24 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 25 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 26 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 27 | ‘ Damian knew right away that it had to be Japan or nothing . |
| 28 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 29 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 30 | In the official view , the use of the Swiss timer pointed clearly to Libya , not only because it had been supplied to its security agency in the first place , but because the PFLP — GC favoured a barometric-pressure triggering system for its Toshiba bombs . |