Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is a game of high stakes — the theme park so far has cost £250 million — and , judging by the roller-coaster performance of the share price on the Paris Bourse , Euro Disney is by no means certain it has put its money on a winner . |
| 2 | By lunchtime on the 12th of October 1993 it had rained so much that schools were closed . |
| 3 | In June India finally agreed to restore trade and transit concessions which in March 1989 it had withdrawn , partly in protest at Nepal 's decision to purchase Chinese weaponry . |
| 4 | Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri said that Egypt had emerged as " the biggest loser " economically from the Gulf War : in the 10 months from August 1990 it had lost an estimated US$20,000 million in export earnings , workers ' remittances and earnings from tourism . |
| 5 | Long before Innocent III it had asserted its primacy over the patriarchates of Constantinople , Alexandria , Antioch and Jerusalem . |
| 6 | The EPLF also announced that on Sept. 12 it had agreed to merge its forces with those of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement ( EPRDM ) . |
| 7 | All its profits are covenanted to third world charities : since November 1986 it has contributed £33,500 to organisations such as Unicef , a Tibetan children 's home , Oxfam , Church Relief in Uganda and others . |
| 8 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 9 | The Moldovan leadership had claimed that the Soviet Army in the republic was supplying arms to " extremist elements " in Russian areas , and on Dec. 7 it had appealed to the UN for action . |
| 10 | Talks broke down on April 22 over the allocation of government posts , although on April 11 it had appeared that a coalition could be formed when all parties agreed that the budget deficit should not exceed 5 per cent gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 11 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 12 | On June 13 it had agreed to provide federal Interior Ministry archive material for screening deputies in the Czech and Slovak National Councils ( parliaments ) . |
| 13 | By March 1983 it had persisted for 11 months . |
| 14 | By mid-September 1989 it had resulted in the death of some 35,000 birds , 10,000 sea otters , 147 bald eagles and an estimated 16 whales in and around Prince William Sound , the location of the disaster . |
| 15 | The fragility of much of the industry attracted to Derry by government aid was shown by the Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory which was opened in the summer of 1967 , employing 1,800 of the abundant supply of cheap young labour ; by January 1968 it had closed down . |
| 16 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
| 17 | By November 1938 it had shortened to just twenty . |
| 18 | By Oct. 24 it had fallen to $29.10 , only to turn upwards again ( following the apparent failure of the Soviet initiative ) and reach $34.95 as of Nov.1 . |
| 19 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |
| 20 | On April 19 the EPRDF took the hydroelectric power station at Finchaa ( also in Welega province ) , and by April 24 it had taken the town of Ambo , 100 km west of Addis Ababa , although this area was retaken by government forces four days later . |