Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 2 | When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament . |
| 3 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 4 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |
| 5 | The NRF had originated from a combination of Swedish Red-and-Whites crossed to Ayrshires ( imported since the 1860s ) , and by 1960 it had absorbed the graded-up Red Trondheim ( a horned breed from Ayrshires crossed to local cattle between 1850 and 1891 ) and the Hedmark , another local type of the Swedish Red-and-White . |
| 6 | In what was seen as a crucial breakthrough for efforts to avert massive famine in the Horn of Africa [ see p. 37845 ] the World Food Programme announced on Dec. 18 that it had secured the definite agreement of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerillas to open the Red Sea port of Massawa , closed to shipping since its capture by the EPLF in February . |
| 7 | It had made the national press . |
| 8 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 9 | It had made the fatal error of overkill . |
| 10 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 11 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 12 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 13 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 14 | The Inquisition ‘ had suppressed the truths of philosophy , physics and geology ’ ; it had enslaved the Spanish mind and denied progress . |
| 15 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 16 | It had joined the growing ranks of creatures with odd numbers of limbs in Georgia . |
| 17 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 18 | Indeed , the middle class actually came to believe it had inherited the leafy suburban earth . |
| 19 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 20 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 21 | ( A statement on Jan. 10 by Farouq Qaddumi , head of the political department of the PLO executive committee , declared that Palestinians were proud of the Iraqi stance and blamed the USA alone for the failure of the talks , since it had ignored the central issue , i.e. Palestine . ) |
| 22 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 23 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 24 | It had become the regular haunt of hearty working men with fearsome bottom cleavage , who shared an appreciation of small newspapers with big headlines , a moderate spread at an affordable price and a well-turned ankle . |
| 25 | In local elections on Dec. 17 , 1989 [ see also p. 37197 ] , the PSD won 31.46 per cent of the vote ( as compared with 50.2 per cent in the July 1987 general election when it had become the only party in the post-1974 era to secure an absolute parliamentary majority — see pp. 35388-90 ) . |
| 26 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 27 | Critics argued that it had legitimised the Soviet system in Eastern Europe without providing anything meaningful in return . |
| 28 | It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 per cent of the gross national product in official aid . |
| 29 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 30 | By 1985 it had overtaken the latter , reaching $25m. , and retained its position in 1986 with $30m. and in 1987 with $35m . |