Example sentences of "[adj] it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim for damages for loss of expectation of life is limited to a moderate conventional sum ; by 1985 it had reached £1,750 ( Kralj v McGrath [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 54 ) . |
| 2 | According to the 1989 census , Abkhazia was only 17.8 per cent Abkhaz and 45.7 per cent Georgian ( other major ethnic groups being Russians and Armenians ) , but since 1978 it had demanded secession from Georgia , this campaign having escalated in 1990 [ see pp. 37665 ; 38079 ] . |
| 3 | At first it had affected Mr Cosmo very little , but when the little screen began putting out quality material , the Cosmo ( then under the control of George 's son Ronald Singleton ) was no longer viable and the family sold it , with great reluctance , to the Scottish Film Council . |
| 4 | He calculates that in 1870 0.6% of the population of the USA were engaged in clerical work ; by 1970 it had reached 18% . |
| 5 | The business Simpson acquired was charming , but a financial shambles ; as late as 1986 it had lost £1 million on sales of £3 million . |
| 6 | The justices left intact a ruling by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals , which had held that the US Congress had acted properly when in 1986 it had prohibited individuals from possessing or transferring machine guns . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century the problem was ill-health , sanitation , poor housing , overcrowding and social disorder , ; between the wars it was diet , hygiene and the slums ; in the mid 1960s it had become deprivation ; a current thread throughout was an unfit dwelling stock and environmental disadvantage . |
| 8 | At its best it had focused ideas and inculcated democratic values . |
| 9 | On Aug. 9 the firm admitted that on several occasions in 1990 it had manipulated auctions of US securities by bidding for more than 35 per cent of the securities on offer , thereby exceeding the government 's ceiling on acquisitions by primary dealers . |
| 10 | In 1980 new bank and building society lending was £15.7billion and by 1988 it had reached £82billion . |
| 11 | By 1906 it had reached South Yorkshire and the North Midlands ; by 1914 Lancashire . |
| 12 | In fact he underestimated the level the national debt would reach ; by the beginning of the war with France in 1793 it had reached £242,900,000 . |