Example sentences of "that it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 2 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 3 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 4 | ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits . |
| 5 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 6 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 7 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 8 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
| 9 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 10 | BIIBA wanted a stay of execution on Fimbra 's plans and thought that it had gained such a deal when its chairman , David Palmer , met Fimbra chairman Lord Elton . |
| 11 | The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ . |
| 12 | She learnt that it had been developed in the 1920s by a German physician , Dr Max Gerson . |
| 13 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 14 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 15 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 16 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 17 | A GROUP claiming to represent Abu Nidal 's Palestinian assassination organisation claimed yesterday that it had murdered a leader of the Jewish community in Belgium because he was ‘ one of the main leaders of Israel 's Mossad secret service ’ . |
| 18 | But an army spokesman denied that it had been asked to prepare to intervene . |
| 19 | As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market . |
| 20 | As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market . |
| 21 | He wished that the BMA would now stop ‘ quibbling ’ and accept the assurance that it had accepted last week that patients will get all the drugs they need , he added . |
| 22 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 23 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 24 | The department emphasised last night that it had agreed to meet Acas in its advisory capacity . |
| 25 | ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’ |
| 26 | WARSAW — Poland announced yesterday that it had stopped sending home East Germans who cross the border illegally , seeking transfer to West Germany , Reuter reports . |
| 27 | Further pressure came from Poland 's announcement yesterday that it had stopped sending home East Germans who crossed the border illegally with the aim of reaching West Germany . |
| 28 | Narasimhan Ram , associate editor of The Hindu , a Madras-based daily , said at a press conference that it had been preparing to publish documents about the £550m Bofors contract to supply the Indian army with 155mm howitzers . |
| 29 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 30 | The consortium behind the $7bn management buyout , in which BA would have a 15 per cent stake , admitted yesterday that it had been unable to complete its part of the financing . |