Example sentences of "[noun] that it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 2 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 3 | Some 18 months after the announcement that it had formally established a manufacturing joint venture in the autonomous republic of Tatarstan , ICL Plc is finally about to start shipping components to its joint venture ICL-KMECS in Kazan . |
| 4 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 5 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 6 | There was no sign that it had ever had a front cow-catcher roll bar fitted . |
| 7 | Thorn 's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m . |
| 8 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 9 | Was it really just this morning that it had all happened ? |
| 10 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 11 | All of these studies emphasised the same , fundamental point : that rehabilitation had led to the sacrifice of justice in favour of an alternative goal that it had manifestly failed to achieve . |
| 12 | If I had n't insisted on you going along on the drop we would have absolutely no proof that it had ever taken place ! |
| 13 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 14 | M-19 was participating in the elections despite the fact that it had yet to sign a final peace agreement with the government of President Virgilio Barco . |
| 15 | Two years after the secession , Robert of Stratford , the Chancellor of England and Oxford , wrote to Cambridge University with the sobering thought that and until 1854 , Oxford made students swear an oath They even took the Brazenose gate knocker to Oxford in 189O under the impression that it had originally come from Oxford . |