Example sentences of "it had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 4 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 5 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 6 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 7 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 8 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 9 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had clearly passed by the inhabitants of this quiet corner of Picardy . |
| 12 | Yet there must have been a point at which it had clearly failed as a general expedient , and some may always have considered it shameful . |
| 13 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 14 | It had probably entered by the large cat-flap . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 16 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 17 | What little remained of it had never rejoiced in the calm self-assurance of the French , who had equated their race with civilization . |
| 18 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 19 | It had never occurred as a scenario in his fantasies . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the numerous developments and debates of the decade had not persuaded a single country to shift from the position it had originally adopted on the European question in the 1940s . |
| 21 | By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest . |
| 22 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 23 | After details of the case emerged , the student movement never regained the broad base and wide influence it had once had on the Japanese political scene . |
| 24 | It had once seemed like a reasonable strategy for a loner : live cheap , move around , invest everything and then cut loose while still young and really start to live . |
| 25 | It was interesting that it had once belonged to the Ballaters . |
| 26 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 27 | It had all crystallised at a party . |
| 28 | It is a great misfortune for my book to come out with it ( though I am glad it was written before it ) : if it had only appeared with The Present and the Past . |
| 29 | On the contrary , it had only resulted from a number of complex and unforeseeable political developments at court . |