Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] it had " in BNC.
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| 31 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 32 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 33 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 34 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 35 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 36 | Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family . |
| 37 | This was attacked by Labour as dismantling the housing welfare programme as it had existed since 1945 , or perhaps since the Addison Act of 1919 . |
| 38 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 39 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 40 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 41 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 42 | Of earthly pleasure as it had been , |
| 43 | A referendum , held in March 1992 , confirmed this position by a large majority although it had itself been declared unconstitutional . |
| 44 | Above all , it must be recalled that , at least in the fifteenth century , military objectives could best be achieved through siege warfare , which gave the cavalry less opportunity than it had enjoyed before . |
| 45 | The sums of money were enormous and I told them that there would be no more money once it had been spent . ’ |
| 46 | The confusion over the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935 did not help : there were uncertainties between the Ministries of Transport and Health , delay over necessary action and ineffectiveness once it had been taken . |
| 47 | The constitution would be ratified in a national referendum once it had been adopted by the National Assembly . |
| 48 | She saw the water at a higher level than it had been when Henrietta had been lowered into it and the mouths of the two pipes were almost submerged . |
| 49 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 50 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 51 | In addition , in a number of LEA areas where it had been decided , mainly for doctrinaire reasons , not to submit bids , we have received individual bids from schools . |
| 52 | On Jan. 16 the Central Commission on the Population and House Census announced the continuation of the census in areas where it had not been completed by Jan. 14 . |
| 53 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 54 | Social and economic change and political and industrial movements had by the end of the century made ‘ the social question , a more central political and intellectual issue than it had been in 1870 . |
| 55 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 56 | The draft constitution had been submitted to the House of Representatives on June 4 [ see p. 38278 ] but could not become law until it had been approved by referendum , according to President Joseph Momoh . |
| 57 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 58 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 59 | It would be a much lesser work if it had swerved towards either extreme . |
| 60 | However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain . |