Example sentences of "it had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 2 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 3 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 4 | Seven years ago Lyons Tetley called in the Mass Observation research agency ( a WPP subsidiary ) to help determine whether there was any future in an idea it had for differentiating Tetley teabags from those of competitors . |
| 5 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 6 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 7 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 8 | As it had for Hegel , consciousness again becomes a significant element in the process of history for Lukács . |
| 9 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 10 | Unlike many people since the end of the Second World War , Freud , writing in the late 1920s , remained impressed with the progress made in the use of technology in improving man 's life , although not unaware of the potential it had for destruction . |
| 11 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 12 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 13 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 14 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 15 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 16 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 17 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 18 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 19 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 20 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 21 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 22 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |