Example sentences of "[conj] it had [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it had covered Forster 's face , his neck , chin , mouth , nose and one cheek , the skin and lips had gone , as if etched away by acid . |
| 2 | By the middle of the year the ALP was also in control of every state government except New South Wales , where it had lost power in 1988 . |
| 3 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 4 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 5 | Although it had followed Cusick 's design , the model was not judged to look busy enough . |
| 6 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 7 | Debt rescheduling agreements [ see pp. 37393 ; 37729 ] had reduced some of the pressure on the government , which , although it had committed forces on the allied side in the current Gulf war , identified with popular support for Iraq [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 8 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 9 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 10 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 11 | On 15th July the company announced that it had received elections accepting the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative from the holders of 177,631,159 ordinary shares in Johnson Matthey . |
| 12 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 13 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |
| 14 | The USA , France , Venezuela and Argentina denounced the coup and demanded Aristide 's return to power , a demand echoed by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , despite the re-affirmation at its June assembly of its traditional position of non-intervention if proof was given by a new government that it had gained control of its internal affairs [ see p. 38286 ] . |
| 15 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 16 | The report added that it had cost Iran between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 to provide services for the refugees . |
| 17 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 18 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 19 | The Democratic Party also announced that it had selected Dr Sali Berisha , party leader , as presidential candidate , making him Mr Alia 's most likely successor . |
| 20 | The Dutch company announced at the end of last week that it had reached agreement to buy Liber AB in Stockholm , Sweden 's second largest publishing group . |
| 21 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 22 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 23 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 24 | Peugeot said that it had lost production of 49,000 cars as a result of the strikes . |
| 25 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 26 | Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen . |
| 27 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 28 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 29 | A 50-day strike in the automobile industry ended on Aug. 1 , when Autolatina , the Brazilian holding company for the Ford and Volkswagen car manufacturers , claimed that it had lost sales worth over US$300 million . |
| 30 | The government ended seven years of legal wrangling over compensation by announcing on June 21 that it had fixed payments for relatives of those killed and injured in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] . |