Example sentences of "[adj] it had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 2 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |
| 3 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 4 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By 1873 it had become illegal to have in one 's possession in the mine a ferrous metal pricker or scraper . |
| 7 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 8 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 9 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |
| 10 | Its original foundation as an Oxford Delegacy WEA branch pre-dated the formation of the District and in 1919 its membership exceeded seventy-five , but by 1923 it had become dormant . |
| 11 | Professor S.J. Prais estimates that in 1909 the share of the hundred largest enterprises in manufacturing net output in the UK amounted to 16 per cent approximately , but by 1970 it had reached 40–41 per cent ; while in the U S over the same period the figure grew from 22 per cent to 33 per cent . |
| 12 | By 1986 it had become evident that these fears had , to some extent , been realized . |
| 13 | However , by 1986 it had become evident that the collapse in manufacturing had been so severe that alternative approaches based on tourism and retailing should be given much greater prominence ( MDC , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Thus in 1970 EC12 unemployment was only 1.8 per cent , by 1986 it had reached 11.7 per cent ( Fig. 6.2 ) . |
| 15 | In 1927 Champagne sales on the French market accounted for eight million bottles , by 1935 it had passed twenty-four million . |
| 16 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 17 | The advent of relatively cheap microelectronics meant that by the late 1960s it had become possible to control these machines by dedicated mini- or micro-computers directly attached to them , such machines having ‘ computer numerically control ’ or CNC . |
| 18 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 19 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 20 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
| 21 | One moment the forest was rich and lush , the next it had turned golden , then the leaves blew into the air , almost as if there had been an explosion . |