Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 2 | The government ended seven years of legal wrangling over compensation by announcing on June 21 that it had fixed payments for relatives of those killed and injured in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] . |
| 3 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 4 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 5 | The discipline had thus successfully established and maintained the continuity of the English genius as an at once moral , human ( i.e. engendered ) , and poetic force ; and it had developed procedures for regulating the admissibility of particular fictional works to this field of predominantly male-to-male discourse . |
| 6 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 7 | On Dec. 30 a Moslem separatist unit freed an American missionary , Augustine Frazczack , whom it had held hostage for more than two months . |
| 8 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 9 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 10 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 11 | The original sheet of 100 was bought in a Washington post office by William T Robey on 14 May 1918 ; it had changed hands for $15,000 within the year . |
| 12 | While Cambridge had offered little concession to seminar teaching , it had allowed space for the introduction of a plurality of critical approaches and methodology . |
| 13 | Obligingly it had allowed time for everyone to note its zig-zag back stripe ending with the V on its head . |