Example sentences of "had [vb pp] its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D-1 competes with Mannesmann Mobilfunk 's GmbH 's D-2 system , and Telekom conceded that the Mannesmann network had outpaced its own D-1 system in winning subscribers , and that its own share was well below 50% . |
| 2 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 3 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 4 | Long before that , however , Emor had developed its own momentum . |
| 5 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |
| 6 | NEC Corp is now such a star in workstations in the Japanese market that Sanyo Electric Corp , which had developed its own Icon workstations around the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC , has decided instead to work with NEC on MIPS-based workstations and buy the resulting products in OEM , the Nikkei Industrial Daily reports . |
| 7 | Over the decades the Legion had developed its own style of soldiering . |
| 8 | Each separate constituent part of the organisation had developed its own personnel information systems and methods of operation . |
| 9 | It was not surprising to find that each part of the organisation had developed its own method of personnel operation and had created personnel systems to support these . |
| 10 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |
| 11 | Disdaining man-made boxes , it had excavated its own hole — into which it now disappeared . |
| 12 | By this time , New Scientist had organised its own survey of what was likely to happen when the task force reached its objective . |
| 13 | Between January and May 1922 no money from any central agency was given to them , so they had to depend on the surplus of local revenues and gifts after the guberniia relief committee had made its own collections . |
| 14 | Ironically , we heard through the grapevine that the Soviet government had made its own translation of the OECD report for circulation within a narrow circle of officials in the State Committee for Science and Technology ! |
| 15 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 16 | The Bell had asked in July , " What do the people need ? " , and had answered its own question by saying " It is very simple , the people need land and liberty " . |
| 17 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 18 | It had had its own peculiar smell , compounded of wax polish and the pot-pourri Aunt Lou made and put out in little dishes in every room . |
| 19 | The space station , like every space station she 'd ever been on , had had its own almost imperceptible vibration and hum . |
| 20 | Until 1985 Contact had had its own user committee . |
| 21 | Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about . |
| 22 | As an old-established settlement , it had boasted its own school since 1604 and the schoolmaster 's house of this date , although much altered , survives on an adjoining site . |
| 23 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 24 | It was reported on Dec. 27 that Serbia had introduced its own currency to replace the Yugoslav dinar . |
| 25 | It was reported on July 28 that Estonia had set its own internal rouble exchange rate at 33 roubles to the US dollar . |
| 26 | For thousands of years , Xerxes Quintus had gone its own course , ignorant of the Imperium . |
| 27 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 28 | It had been practised in the Netherlands , however , since the early 1970s , and such actions had been upheld by the Supreme Court in November 1984 and October 1986 ; the Royal Dutch Medical Association ( KNMG ) had issued its own guidelines on euthanasia . |
| 29 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 30 | But once Pauline thought had consolidated its own position , it automatically became the ‘ established orthodoxy ’ , and from that point on anything that clashed with it became , by definition , a ‘ heresy ’ . |