Example sentences of "it had [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 2 | Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old . |
| 3 | Yorkshire for example may regain the vineyards it had during the warm spell of the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | They believed implicitly in the effectiveness of their method of preparing and getting the bone , and they were certain that the bone 's power stemmed as much from the special treatment it had during the ceremony as from the actual jailing or drawing substances with which they afterwards impregnated it . |
| 5 | Elsewhere contributors will deal with the circumstances of Gloriana 's creation , and the unfavourable reception it had during the Coronation Festivities in 1953 . |
| 6 | The Commission , in setting the level of the fine , took into account , as it had with the shipping fine , the fact that this was the first time a fine had been imposed in this particular sector . |
| 7 | I spoke to the NRA this morning and asked what consultations it had with the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. before the unit produced its chapter of the full-length study on the Cardiff bay barrage proposal . |
| 8 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 9 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 10 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 11 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 12 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 13 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 14 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 15 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 16 | Bodily discomfort , added to the anger that still bubbled unpleasantly inside him , had the effect of clarifying his mind , just as it had on the day of the press conference . |
| 17 | He did n't care about the effect it had on the rest of us . |
| 18 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 19 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 20 | " I missed seeing you , " Timothy Gedge 's voice said again , as it had on the beach . |
| 21 | Such disruption and the effects it had on the life and economy of Egypt fuelled resentment against British domination . |
| 22 | And er sh it had on there this is to do with crisps right , and it , and it had on the survey how warm do you think the weather is ? |
| 23 | But Bernice was sure she was still on the planet : the fourth wall and the floor consisted of blocks of masonry , and the gravity felt exactly the same as it had before the transmat trip . |
| 24 | The repeated incantation calmed him , as it had throughout the flight from Aalborg . |
| 25 | It had in the end been a spectacular departure ; Phoebe 's final fling with overpowering emotion . |
| 26 | The poet 's paternal grandmother , Rachel Phillips , was a native of Abertillery ( or Blaenau Gwent ) where a native Welsh tradition had survived , as it had in the Tredegar of her youth . |
| 27 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 29 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 30 | The first half dealing with the historical aspect of the Ju 52 , its development and predecessors , and the impact that it had in the world of air transport , concentrating mainly on the type 's civil use . |