Example sentences of "[subord] it had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the statistics reveal the economic consequence : a manufacturing sector in 1990 with a smaller share of GDP than it had in 1960 ( see chart 3 on next page ) . |
| 2 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 3 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 4 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 5 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 6 | And yet between these two , from what has been said and written and recollected by both , an intense and governing bond grew up unlikely though it had at first seemed . |
| 7 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 8 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 9 | The committee overwhelmingly voted that the platform should once again contain , as it had since 1980 , the demand for a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion . |
| 10 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 11 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 12 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 13 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 14 | He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie . |
| 15 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |