Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the justice ministry said yesterday that it had barred a judge from investigating how the prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy , came to receive an interest-free loan in 1986 from a financier later charged with insider trading . |
| 3 | But the STUC also voiced disquiet about the way last Monday 's picketing was handled by police , and said it had secured a pledge that policing would now be ‘ even-handed ’ . |
| 4 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 5 | It acted as a retreat house and training centre for people attached to the Society of Saint Sylvester but , under Racy 's leadership , it had made a name for itself specialising in an area of the church 's work which Theodora thought was undervalued . |
| 6 | Clifford Howard commented on how Hollywood could ignore all criticisms as ‘ mere wind ’ and ‘ envy ’ for it had made a success of its own business and it had displayed ‘ a Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it wants ’ . |
| 7 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 8 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 9 | Why initially did the stock market react favourably to the increased dividend declared by Lloyds Bank after it had made a loss of 224 million in the financial year 1986–87 ? |
| 10 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 11 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 12 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 13 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 14 | On Nov. 10 Byelarus said that it had uncovered a smuggling ring engaged in carrying Russian uranium to Poland . |
| 15 | National Clamps said it had sacked an operator over the incident . |
| 16 | Pride and hurt would n't allow her to ask where he was , and Gaston had volunteered no information , so it had remained a mystery . |
| 17 | A shot in the dark but it had struck a target . |
| 18 | The United Nations said it had arranged a ceasefire between the government and Unita on Sunday night , but it was largely ignored . |
| 19 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
| 20 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 21 | Before any action could be taken , it had reached a magazine full of 155 mm. |
| 22 | By the end of September it had reached a news agency reporter in Manchester , who offered it to the Daily Post , an ailing middle-market Fleet Street tabloid , for £15,000 . |
| 23 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 24 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 25 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 26 | Last week , a group from Boston 's Joslin diabetes centre announced that it had devised a blood test that can identify children most at risk . |
| 27 | The Ministry of the Interior had announced on June 11 that it had discovered a plot to assassinate Chamorro , Lacayo and the Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra . |
| 28 | Last November the company admitted that it had discovered a series of accounting errors by the subsidiary 's finance director that had overstated stock figures to boost profits from 1989 . |
| 29 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 30 | Property Management , of Darlington , claimed it had served a notice to quit on Finnegan last September . |