Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had somehow to reconcile conflicting opinions . |
| 2 | But by the 1970s it had again become respectable to stress ethnicity : Arab-Americans , like blacks , Poles , Italians and Jews , became more interested in their roots . |
| 3 | It had thus become clear by the turn of the century that acquired language disorder was by no means a single entity : instead , a variety of different patterns of disorder could be observed . |
| 4 | Some of the changes were felt to be long overdue , such as a scale 3 second in department for English , and it was not always clear whether the appraisal had been the driving force behind a particular change or whether it had simply brought some long-standing problems to urgent attention . |
| 5 | Official results published on March 22 after considerable delays showed that the ruling right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) remained the largest single party , with 44.3 per cent of the vote , but had won only 39 seats , losing its absolute majority in the assembly ( where it had previously held 32 of the 60 seats ) . |
| 6 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 7 | It had already lost half its roof , courtesy of a German or English shell , while the rest of the nave and porch remained intact . |
| 8 | But despite the spirit of communal research which had begun to characterize their work , it had already become apparent that there was still a fundamental difference of approach between them . |
| 9 | When Elizabeth of England died early on the morning of 24 March 1603 it had already become obvious to her entourage that James VI of Scotland was her only possible successor . |
| 10 | Towards the end of 1936 it had already become clear that the French blockade of Spain represented a serious blow to the Republican cause . |
| 11 | It had already received three written warnings ( one for fighting , one for being under the influence of drugs while in charge of a wood-turning lathe , and one for lateness ) and either had to leave or face the sack . |
| 12 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 13 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 14 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 15 | It had already attacked two people who escaped serious injury . |
| 16 | It had already overshadowed all other places in 1801 when its population had reached 865,000 , but a century later its inhabitants numbered over 4½ millions , i.e. more than one-sixth of the entire population of England . |
| 17 | It had already produced great wars and upheavals ; even greater ones were to come . |
| 18 | And , where it had successfully sold Scottish products , had not re-invested the profits there . |
| 19 | Rabbits do n't store food so it had clearly gone all that time without intake . |
| 20 | His was by now a familiar position , and the critical reactions to it had also become predictable : praise at his critical acumen in the examination of individual authors was mixed with scorn or bafflement at the general principles he espoused . |
| 21 | It had also become clear that there were strict limits to its expansion in a capitalist state due to the reluctance of ratepayers to finance further municipal activities . |
| 22 | " It had also become clear that the duty system would change to " end-product taxi which would greatly favour the king-size brands . " |
| 23 | It had also begun open-top chamber experiments in which pollutants are filtered from the air so that tree growth can be compared in ‘ ambient ’ ( polluted ) and clean conditions . |
| 24 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 25 | But the Commons Treasury Select Committee , investigating banks , said it had also closed tens of thousands of businesses . |
| 26 | It had also drawn public criticism from Bettino Craxi , secretary of the Socialist Unity Party ( PSU — formerly the Italian Socialist Party — see p. 37786 ) , who in March 1990 had indicated that an alliance with a reformed and renamed Communist Party might be possible [ see p. 37508 ] . |
| 27 | France 's atomic energy board ( CEA ) has admitted that " radioactive elements " had been " detected " at the sites of former nuclear waste dumps it had officially declared clean . |
| 28 | It had just gone six thirty . |
| 29 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
| 30 | It had just happened that way . |