Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] it had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after the Independent 's uncritical puff for what it had learned from ‘ high-level sources ’ , America 's trial balloon was slow to take off . |
| 2 | The worst case of decline , that of Boston , was brought about by the decline of the wool trade , on the export of which it had grown , and its failure to secure any substantial share of cloth exports . |
| 3 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |
| 4 | For he was realistic enough to recognize that even if the Greek distinction between the ‘ pure ’ and the ‘ useful ’ was ultimately illusory , still the kind of class-division to which it had given rise was deeply engrained . |
| 5 | Henceforward , members of the new body would be proud to call themselves hygienists , because they had rescued the concept from the degradation into which it had sunk during a ‘ materialistic age ’ . |
| 6 | The Académie Française , that illustrious guardian of the French language , set up by Richelieu in 1635 , last week in effect buried the very reform for which it had voted unanimously nine months earlier . |
| 7 | Resolutions continued to call for further economies and lower taxation , so the government got no credit for what it had done . |
| 8 | The bird had thudded against the wallpaper and started to flop downwards and then swooped round and up , seeming ignorant of the opening through which it had entered . |
| 9 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 10 | The innocence of the encounter , and the sharp pitch of emotional stress to which it had brought him , were significant factors in Vincent 's response . |
| 11 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 12 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 13 | In Underwood v. Burgh Castle Brick & cement Syndicate ( 1922 C.A ) the contract was to sell a-30 ton condensing machine which at the time of the contract was standing bolted to a concrete emplacement in which it had become embedded because of its weight . |
| 14 | The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party . |
| 15 | The tyres screamed and fought for grip and then the whole car did a little wiggle like the backside of a pouncing cat and stormed on , back in the direction from which it had come . |
| 16 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 17 | It allocated securities repurchase funds to commercial banks at a minimum 8.25 per cent , unchanged from the rate at which it had fed funds to the market over the last two weeks . |
| 18 | I waited until the Worm was back in there and then blocked up the hole through which it had come . |
| 19 | The division of classes , however , goes on increasing and it finally undermines the society in which it had arisen . |
| 20 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 21 | One might suppose that it would depend on all the complex features of the star from which it had formed — not only its mass and rate of rotation , but also the different densities of various parts of the star , and the complicated movements of the gases within the star . |
| 22 | If Rome pulled further and further back from a willingness to tolerate new theologies , it was due to a not-unfounded belief that by 1970 ‘ new theology ’ meant a very different thing from what it had meant before 1960 . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 24 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 25 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 26 | This court held that the board was required to give reasons for the way in which it had reached its award , and that in the absence of such reasons its award was prima facie irrational . |
| 27 | The Committee gave British Rail a ferocious roasting over the way in which it had introduced the Bill and prosecuted its case . |
| 28 | The Act provides the following defences : that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it ; that that person voluntarily accepted the risk of the damage ; and that the livestock was killed or injured on land on which it had strayed and either the dog belonged to the occupier or its presence on the land was authorised by the occupier . |
| 29 | The late eighteenth-century evidence adduced by Wyld and others is therefore likely to indicate the date at which it had become stigmatized as a ‘ vulgarism ’ , rather than its date of origin . |