Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A campaign based on petitions , letter-writings , and revelations of inadequacies and irregularities in the development 's plans , persuaded the government to reverse the initial approval which it had given to the scheme . |
| 2 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 3 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 4 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 5 | It had moved to the south-west , isolating untouched the stretch of forest between the high road and the marsh of the river . |
| 6 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 7 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 8 | But many had not been settled , and Britain had a list of 50 names it had presented to the Soviet authorities . |
| 9 | Growing pressure from the government 's fundamentalist ally , the Jamaat-i-Islami , fuelled reports that it had contributed to the appointment on March 3 of Lt.-Gen. |
| 10 | Thus , despite the threat that it had posed to the music industry , for six months from December 1976 to June 1977 , Punk Rock was quickly recuperated into a new kind of pop music that accurately reproduced the latest conditions of consumer capitalism . |
| 11 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 12 | But it had progressed to the stage where she could not make herself walk past a pigeon on the ground , but would cross the road in order to avoid it . |
| 13 | Finally , there was the third reading debate when the House had to look at what it had done to the draft bill during the committee stage and decided whether to pass the measure . |
| 14 | I remembered about acid rain , and what it had done to the noseless bishops in their crumbling niches , and the warning notices on this boarded-off turret : Condemned … |
| 15 | By the end of this period , it had grown to the size of a grapefruit — not much , admittedly , but a billion billion times larger than before . |
| 16 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 17 | As a result of these Land elections , the federal CDU-CSU-FDP coalition in the Bundesrat regained its majority ( which it had lost to the SPD after Land elections in May 1990 — see p. 37467 ) , with 35 seats out of the new total of 68 . |
| 18 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 19 | It had come to the stage in 2020 when anyone who regarded Time as other than something that could be measured precisely by chronometer was shunned as an eccentric . |
| 20 | That had stopped the Ministry ‘ dead in its tracks ’ and it had come to the conclusion that if it denied premium to the rearer of suckled calves it would eventually be challenged by a hill farmer before the European Court . |
| 21 | The Moldovan leadership had claimed that the Soviet Army in the republic was supplying arms to " extremist elements " in Russian areas , and on Dec. 7 it had appealed to the UN for action . |
| 22 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 23 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 24 | The effect of rescission is that property ( title ) , if it had passed to the buyer , reverts to the seller . |
| 25 | However , the longevity of the Republic , the material rewards it had provided to the German people and the fact that Eastern Europeans hoped to emulate West German success in future , suggested that Bonn would act to promote , not threaten , democracy across Europe in the 1990s . |
| 26 | She wondered if this coat had ever been on a train before , when it had belonged to the other child . |
| 27 | Seeing me , it had taken to the air , clumsily at first , then with Increasing speed as its great wings beat it downriver to Rash . |
| 28 | It had sunk to the level of palm-reading . |
| 29 | The hotel we stayed at was called The Leningrad when we arrived , but before we 'd left it had changed to the St Petersburg . |
| 30 | The UAE announced on Aug. 19 that it had agreed to the deployment of Arab and other foreign forces . |