Example sentences of "[that] it had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan , Thailand 's principal foreign investor , expressed surprise at the coup , but stated that it had no plans to sever aid . |
| 2 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) announced on 24 that it had no plans to abandon Kabul . |
| 3 | Ongoing regulation of RIEs is now very low key , to the point where , when a major trading scandal broke on the London Commodities Exchange ( then known as " London Fox , in 1991 , SIB indicated that it had no responsibility for the way the exchange operated . |
| 4 | On Nov. 13 the Egyptian Interior Ministry said that it had no evidence to suggest that the guerrillas had entered Israel through Egyptian territory . |
| 5 | The Forestry Commission expressed the hope that the study would generate wide debate but stressed that it had no competence to formulate overall forestry policy , which was a matter for the government . |
| 6 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 7 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 8 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 10 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |
| 11 | On appeal the Court of Appeal held that it had no jurisdiction under section 13(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Ordinanceto hear the appeal since the proceedings before the High Court judge were criminal and not in any civil cause or matter . |
| 12 | In the result , their Lordships have humbly advised Her Majesty that the appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal that it had no jurisdiction should be dismissed , and that the appeal against the judgment of Barnett J. should be dismissed . |
| 13 | It believed that by accepting the South African government view that it had no jurisdiction there , the USA was giving implicit recognition to the nominally independent homeland of Bophuthatswana . |
| 14 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 15 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 16 | That meant , above all , that America would signal to the Soviet Union that it had no intention of rubbing Moscow 's nose in its defeat . |
| 17 | However , the Shetland Islands Council made it clear that it had no intention of grasping the nettle itself , and taking any decision . |
| 18 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |
| 19 | Even the Home Secretary , Merlyn Rees , in his Second Reading speech commending the measure to the House , volunteered that it had no theme . |
| 20 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 21 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 22 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 23 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 24 | This was rejected by the court which simply stated that it had no power to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament . |
| 25 | Moves to have her elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902 were squashed when the council , on legal advice , decided that it had no power to elect a married woman . |
| 26 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 27 | After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth . |
| 28 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 29 | I have never been able to identify the photographer Alec Roberts ' establishment , but I think that it had a balcony . |
| 30 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |