Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 32 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 33 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 34 | It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |
| 35 | Endless reassurance had been necessary — not of her beauty , for nothing could persuade Annabel that it had not vanished , but of her value to them all , and of her family 's affection . |
| 36 | The range of opinions expressed by nobles on the provincial committees made plain to St Petersburg that it had to act alone . |
| 37 | In reconstructing the circumstances of the crash , the Mexican investigators concluded that the Falcon was actually 40 miles further away from ACA VOR than it had reported — i.e. , it was at 75 nmi when the pilot reported 35 nmi . |
| 38 | I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck . |
| 39 | He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected . |
| 40 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 41 | Iraq demanded on Sept. 26 that Kuwait be expelled from the NAM because it had signed a defence agreement with the United States , a move which it claimed compromised Kuwait 's neutrality . |
| 42 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 43 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 44 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 45 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 46 | But also there 's a the Soviet Union used to grow a lot of its own tea , but it grew it round Chernobyl and it had to start importing a lot of tea . |
| 47 | In London Oz and It had the field almost to themselves . |
| 48 | But in those times Oz and It had a wave to ride , and they did their best to do so . |
| 49 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 50 | The main target for the Auld Report 's criticisms was the LEA because it had interpreted its responsibilities in terms largely confined to the provision of resources . |
| 51 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 52 | This should put a stop to the sort of attempt made by Hanson after it had successfully taken-over Imperial . |
| 53 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |
| 54 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 55 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 56 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 57 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 58 | There amidst the general gloom was a report from Hong Kong Land that it had sold a property in the colony achieving a profit of approximately £273m . |
| 59 | The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it . |
| 60 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |