Example sentences of "which it had [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Strikes and protests continued throughout December , obliging the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government to postpone the price liberalization programme which it had begun to implement in November [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 3 | The result forced the government to freeze the sale of 51 per cent of the shares of the state telecommunications body Antel , which it had intended to offer to a foreign company for a sum of around US$500,000,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 7 | It is a measure of the seriousness of the arguments we put that , more than six months later , the Department still failed to issue the ruling , which it had promised to deliver as a matter of some urgency . |
| 8 | Since the inception of the Doi Moi campaign in 1986 , the press had been granted a limited " freedom to comment " , which it had used to highlight corruption and the failures of government . |
| 9 | Earlier this month , preliminary findings from an investigation by Kenneth Randall found that the Gooda Walker agency may have overstated its syndicates ' profits between 1981 and 1988 through the use of time and distance policies , about which it had failed to inform its auditors in at least one syndicate . |
| 10 | Although a traffic function would remain , the car would be demoted from the position of priority which it had come to hold in most streets . |