Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Doncaster Health Authority confirmed yesterday that it had made an undisclosed payment to Mr Rod Brodie and his wife , Valerie , both 38 . |
| 3 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In losing Law the party had lost a conciliator ; in electing Austen it had gained an inflexible leader who would not always put party first . |
| 6 | National Clamps said it had sacked an operator over the incident . |
| 7 | It had announced an elected convention to recommend new constitutional arrangements to replace the ones overthrown by the UWC general strike . |
| 8 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Vatican said it had accepted an unprecedented Chinese invitation to send a top official to Peking to attend a sports ceremony this weekend and meet government officials . |
| 10 | This account could only be drawn on when it had reached an estimated $1,000 million and would be for the purpose of purchasing the external debt bonds of Argentina 's creditor banks . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it . |
| 14 | To start with , it had employed an impressive legal team to put its case . |
| 15 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 16 | Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 17 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 18 | The former communist party , now the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SDRP ) confirmed on Nov. 7 that it had received an interest-free loan worth more than US$1,200,000 in January 1990 from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 19 | It had received an influx of lawyers from Rome when the Normans had taken the city in 1084 . |
| 20 | It had constituted an " outstanding achievement " by Acting President Ahmed and the Election Commission and was a " triumph for the people of Bangladesh " . |
| 21 | Xerox Corp announced yesterday that it had developed an advanced ink-jet technology that uses a 128-nozzle print head for desktop computer printers , and that it has retained Tokyo Electric Co Ltd to assemble the printers ; Xerox is manufacturing the printers ' ink-jet cartridges at its Canandaigua , New York plant ; it notes that the 128 nozzles enable faster print speeds than competing printers ; the printer will ship later this year . |
| 22 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 23 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 24 | Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri said that Egypt had emerged as " the biggest loser " economically from the Gulf War : in the 10 months from August 1990 it had lost an estimated US$20,000 million in export earnings , workers ' remittances and earnings from tourism . |
| 25 | It had become an older , slower , more exacting entertainment , if indeed it was still entertainment of any sort : no longer Mission Impossible but , as Senator Warren Rudman put it , ‘ like sitting on a winter night in New Hampshire with a blizzard raging outside and reading a Robert Ludlum novel ’ . |
| 26 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 27 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 28 | It had become an obsession ; he was terrified he might die before he could complete it . |
| 29 | It had become an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ ( creation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of ‘ bedrooms ’ was an important move in the development of sexual privacy , itself part of the development of a stable home unit appropriate to capitalism ) . |
| 30 | The ‘ public ’ which frequented it had become an amorphous mass . |