Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employment here peaked in 1975 and had somewhat recovered from its lowest level of 1981 by 1984 . |
| 2 | The British Government had proposed to the Council of Europe that it should examine a range of questions including that of service of process abroad , which the United Kingdom had hitherto included in its bilateral civil procedure conventions . |
| 3 | This break with the past was in some ways more apparent than real , for the first members of the college had all served in its predecessor . |
| 4 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 5 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 6 | This followed a serious accident at the reactor on Oct. 19 which had already led to its temporary closure [ see p. 36984 ] . |
| 7 | Russia had already put under its jurisdiction border troops in Tajikistan , and Tajik rebel forces were known to be receiving weaponry via this route . |
| 8 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 9 | Around 90 per cent of members of the new body had not served in its predecessor , and the outcome of the negotiations was characterized by observers as the most thorough purge of hardliners since Zhivkov 's departure . |
| 10 | If Electronics had not held off its creditors , it would have collapsed , bringing Magnetics down with it . |
| 11 | The slug had missed the bone and major blood vessels and had not spread during its brief passage , so the exit wound was only slightly larger than the entry wound . |
| 12 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 13 | The work had scarcely got into its stride before it was interrupted by the outbreak of the Wars of Independence . |
| 14 | Not only that , the living form had hardly changed from its Silurian predecessor ( see p. 77 ) . |
| 15 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 16 | ‘ The picture that has emerged is one of Mr Berry continuing to run Blue Arrow as he had always done despite its transformation to a very substantial international public company . |
| 17 | Even before this point Highlander had always insisted on its workshops being de-segregated , though it was actually illegal to have such gatherings under the laws of the state . |
| 18 | But the dog smelt the man 's fear , and turned and ran away from him faster than it had ever run in its life . |
| 19 | The still-rarefied atmosphere received a heavy blast of different air as the school opened its gates to the bulging generation of girls born just after the war and a working class bound for higher educational achievements than it had ever had within its reach . |
| 20 | Down on Old Compton Street , the Two ‘ I's , hailed as the home of British rock , because Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard had once drifted through its doors , was old hat . |
| 21 | By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama . |
| 22 | He could afford this , for the royal household had brazenly looked after its own . |
| 23 | ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was finally to reach more than twice that length , but even in its early form had clearly developed beyond its original purpose as a magazine ballad . |
| 24 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 25 | Apart from these two central institutions of the court , the Chamber and the Household-below-Stairs , there were several offices , known later as ‘ the standing offices ’ , which had once been a part of the royal Household and had now moved to its fringes . |
| 26 | But this article was written in a different era : a time before doorstepping and telephoto journalism had really got into its stride ; a more innocent age when the phrase ‘ royal scoop ’ indicated the saccharine nursery revelations of a former nanny , and people who ‘ knew ’ were n't averse to ringing up William Hickey or Dempster . |
| 27 | The Law Commission had strongly recommended in its 1976 Report on Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform that cinema films should be brought within the scope of the Obscene Publications Act , since Parliament 's supposition that ‘ such exhibitions … are most unlikely … to be prosecuted ’ had already proved unfounded . |
| 28 | On my first visit to the village I was unable to find any of its vines and when I asked several people from the larger Champagne houses , few had even heard of its vineyards , let alone of their elevated status . |
| 29 | It was far easier to assume that the islands had been stocked by the accidental transportation of small numbers of individuals from the mainland , after which each population had simply adapted to its new environment in a different way . |
| 30 | The wooden hoop supporting the foliage had almost collapsed beneath its weight . |