Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [conj] it had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of " Red Routes " ( urban clearways with stringent parking restrictions ) , currently under trial in London , would be extended , after initial studies showed that it had proved successful in cutting journey times by up to 30 per cent . |
| 2 | Critics argued that it had legitimised the Soviet system in Eastern Europe without providing anything meaningful in return . |
| 3 | Mission scientists stated that it had detected traces of water , carbon , hydrogen and metals in Grigg-Skjellerup , providing further clues as to how the solar system was formed approximately 4,500 million years previously . |
| 4 | In the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election , in which there were on average almost seven candidates for each of the 450 seats , Rukh won the majority of the Kiev seats , but its leaders claimed that it had performed badly in most rural areas because of obstruction and electoral malpractice by officials . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike . |
| 6 | Subsequent estimates indicated that it had spilt around 70,000 tons of its cargo . |
| 7 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 8 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |