Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , mandamus would lie to compel a tribunal to hear a case which it had mistakenly decided was not within its jurisdiction . |
| 2 | They also agreed that the Scandinavian army would be given tribute , and it at last occupied London , thus gaining in peace what it had never gained in war . |
| 3 | Barbados Labour Party ( BLP , former Foreign Minister Henry Forde l. ) is the right-wing opposition ; the National Democratic Party ( NDP , Richie Haynes l. ) , a splinter group from the DLP formed in 1989 , lost in the 1991 general election the four seats which it had hitherto held . |
| 4 | For science not only offered the movement an image of modernity which it had recently lacked ; it also provided a vocabulary with which Labour 's traditional divisions could be obscured . ’ |
| 5 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 6 | Although polling apparently passed off peacefully , the election campaign period had reportedly been characterized by months of repression , severe restrictions and official harassment of candidates and political activists , as the military regime continued the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement which it had brutally repressed in September 1988 [ see pp. 36221-25 for background ] . |
| 7 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 8 | In the second half of the 1980s , however , the North recovered a small part of the share of manufacturing employment which it had previously lost to the South . |
| 9 | After drainage had removed this regular winter flood , the people were left with ‘ thin hungry starving water , which rendered the land incapable of supporting the large grazing herds which it had formerly sustained . |
| 10 | The payment of this sum , however , was conditional on the Legislative Assembly approving new and unpopular tax laws which it had still failed to do by May 1991 . |
| 11 | It now stood motionless , upright , next to the stone which it had still failed to raise , and which lay forlornly dangling over its hole . |
| 12 | ‘ But apparently the street lights had come on and their electric glare was filtered through the torn mesh of dusty leaves , giving an elegance to the street which it had otherwise forgotten . |
| 13 | The Ingard group is in serious financial trouble , and a fortnight ago presented a cheque for £300,000 which it had neither finds nor a sufficient overdraft to meet — it had already exceeded the limit of the facilities which the bank was prepared to allow . |