Example sentences of "it had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone , and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days . |
| 2 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 3 | The committee overwhelmingly voted that the platform should once again contain , as it had since 1980 , the demand for a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion . |
| 4 | Tunisian radio reported on Oct. 3 that Prime Minister Hamed Karoui had told a " large popular meeting " in Tunis that the Nahda movement " [ did ] not differ from the rest of the terrorist gangs in European democratic countries " ; it had since 1986 opposed the democratic process and now sought " to exploit the effects of the Gulf crisis on the tourism sector and disrupt development work " . |
| 5 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 6 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 7 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 8 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 9 | It had to first of all survive which is why it went on the long march was n't it ? |
| 10 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 11 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 12 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 13 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 14 | And yet between these two , from what has been said and written and recollected by both , an intense and governing bond grew up unlikely though it had at first seemed . |
| 15 | Respectable journals which reckoned to cover the whole of science refused to publish psychical research ; reports and discussions of it were unwelcome at meetings of scientific societies ; and involvement in it had at best an ambiguous effect on a scientist 's career . |
| 16 | Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all . |
| 17 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 18 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 19 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 20 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 21 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 22 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 23 | Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population . |
| 24 | Of course , evacuation was only a part of the enormous social disruption brought about by the war ; but subsequent recollections by evacuees , such as those collected by B. S. Johnson , pay eloquent testimony to the lasting effects — both negative and positive — it had on those who endured it , and suggest that qualitatively it was an experience that stood apart from the wider social confusion of wartime . |
| 25 | The research focuses on one large and diverse group — those Welsh who migrated from Wales to English towns in the mid-nineteenth century — and through the analysis of group experiences examines both the process of migration and the impact which it had on cultural and social change . |
| 26 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 27 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 28 | It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn . |
| 29 | It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old . |
| 30 | When Newham had finished trying to destroy that school , it had about 300 pupils , but there are now almost double that number . |