Example sentences of "it had [verb] [art] " 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 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 7 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 10 | Mixed , she said , because it had given the theatre the opportunity to invite P.L. O'Hara to step into the breach . |
| 11 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 12 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 13 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 14 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 15 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 18 | By 1920 , it had secured a comfortable majority on the council and had two of Greater London 's four Labour MPS . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the largest single party in the upper chamber , however , the LDP could have commanded an overall majority if it had secured the support of Komeito . |
| 22 | The threat co-incided with an announcement by British Gas that it had secured an exclusive deal with Bahrain , one of the GCC members , to develop plans for a large power station there . |
| 23 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 25 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 26 | Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year . |
| 27 | She had tried to imagine Tommy Allen coming into the bedroom and taking Fred 's place , but it had made no difference . |
| 28 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |