Example sentences of "[noun] it had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the mid-1960s it had become evident that the post-war promise of unlimited prosperity and the reduction of class conflict was illusory . |
| 2 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
| 3 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 4 | In Brazil it had seemed easy to rush straight back into Tess 's loving arms whenever he chose to forgive her . |
| 5 | Graham 's voice sounded very loud , contrasting sharply with the heaviness it had held all through the conversation so far . |
| 6 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 7 | The NSP said that as a result of the discovery it had arrested 62 people on charges of violating the National Security Law and the Military Secrets Protection Law . |
| 8 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 9 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 10 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 11 | She had commented on its goodness to Clare , who guessed at how many years it had lain fallow ; five — six ? |
| 12 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 13 | Indeed , at the end of October it had seemed unlikely that there would be any contest at all , even with a ‘ stalking horse ’ candidate as had occurred in 1989 . |
| 14 | But she had eaten it , and with the delicious taste still lingering on her palate it had seemed ungrateful to cross-question him . |
| 15 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 16 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 17 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 18 | All in all , it was a fitting country seat for a magnate ; even before the rebuilding it had needed 160 servants to run the house and grounds . |
| 19 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 20 | During the parliamentary debates it had become clear that the government would be able to count on external support from the Socialist Party of Labour on the far left , the Greater Romania Party on the far right and several other nationalist groups . |
| 21 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 22 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 23 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A liquidator was called in on March 25 1905 , and finally in the August all 600 men ( at the company 's height it had employed 800 ) were paid off and sent home . |
| 26 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 27 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 28 | In Burt 's day an army of 50 men was employed to look after the Durlston estate , but after a century it had become neglected : overgrown with foliage , fallen walls and rusty wartime installations . |
| 29 | By the end of the century it had sold 1,250,000 copies and unlike Allon 's own collection of hymns , it had been an official publication , part of the growth in musical taste and improved choirs . |
| 30 | By the end of September that year it had sold 100,000 copies . |