Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 2 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 3 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 4 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 5 | If the Government adhere to their position , the decision on the bids would be taken not after due consideration and detailed examination but at the outset by telling one bid that it had not been selected to receive the £48,750 assistance . |
| 6 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 7 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 8 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 9 | It could mean that a claimant would be uncertain as to whether , on a rational basis test , an authority would apply the same meaning to a term that it had used previously , or whether it would adopt a different interpretation . |
| 10 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 11 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 12 | A spokesman for ICI , Britain 's giant chemical conglomerate which is active in many fields of genetic engineering , told New Scientist that it had not been approached . |
| 13 | Of course , it might be the case that it had been settled long before that . |
| 14 | Responding to the disclosures , the ANC said that the government 's admission that it had funded Inkatha to pursue anti-ANC activities threatened the peace process . |
| 15 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 16 | The unwanted segment that it had replaced went into the disposal unit to be jettisoned during Highlight . |
| 17 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 18 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 19 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 20 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 21 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 22 | Erm I think it it is beneficial mainly in the sense that erm if nothing more than running round the vehicle to make sure there are no marks and bangs and scratches on it which you 're going to inherit from the the previous run that it had er with a different driver perhaps . |
| 23 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 24 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 25 | On Oct. 1 the United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered admitted to the committee that it had been aware of violations of banking guidelines by its Indian subsidiary some 18 months before the scandal erupted . |
| 26 | Coun Vera Moody told Langbaurgh 's planning committee that it had been a long-standing problem with young people congregating in the shopping parade . |
| 27 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 28 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 29 | To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Minton held a party at the Mandrake , giving Boris Watson £200 over the bar with the insistence that it had to be spent . |
| 30 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |