Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that it had " in BNC.
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1 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
2 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
3 | The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 . |
4 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
5 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
6 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
7 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
8 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
9 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
10 | Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming . |
11 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
12 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |
13 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
14 | Unfortunately , the nonresonant nature of the nonlinearity in this experiment meant that it had to compete with other nonlinear processes . |
15 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
16 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
17 | On Nov. 28 the FIS 's consultative council announced that it had postponed a decision on participation in the election " in order to give the regime another opportunity to spell out its intention to clear the political atmosphere " . |
18 | On Feb. 21 the Military Council announced that it had restored the 1921 Constitution of the Georgian Democratic Republic . |
19 | Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen . |
20 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
21 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
22 | The Council felt that it had only achieved a limited success in achieving the aims determined above . |
23 | The council said that it had deposed the President , abolishing his office , and had suspended parliament pending new elections . |
24 | Although a trial judge might exclude evidence on the ground of fairness under s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the fact that Parliament had incorporated the provisions of s 2(8) into the 1987 Act suggested that it had not felt that the power under the 1984 Act was sufficient to protect a person from being compelled to give evidence . |
25 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
26 | The Ladbroke Group announced that it had acquired the 505 room Dom Hotel in Berlin , one of East Germany 's most prestigious hotels , as the Berlin Hilton . |
27 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
28 | The Islamic Jihad of Palestine group claimed that it had planted the bomb in protest at the Rishon Le Zion killings . |
29 | The industrial investment group replied that it had employed both Korn/Ferry and Russell Reynolds , but wrote that although the type of firm used depended essentially on their need , ‘ our experience is that in our opinion we receive better service from smaller , local firms for positions which do not have an international content to the job ’ . |
30 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |