Example sentences of "on the [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 2 | Martial law had remained in effect on the islands after it had been lifted throughout the rest of Taiwan in mid-1987 [ see pp. 35378-79 ] . |
| 3 | Others believed the panel to be constituted on a representative basis , so that the coordinating committee was entitled to no more than one seat on the panel that it had created , while others appear to have seen the panel as relating more to the county inservice activities than to the project itself . |
| 4 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 5 | I decided on the Waterside because it had a phone , beer you could n't get anywhere else in London and a very interesting turnover in young French female chefs . |
| 6 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 7 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 8 | Lord Diplock also pointed out that the only case brought to their Lordships ' attention in which an appellate court had actually excluded evidence on the ground that it had been unfairly obtained by a trick was Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 . |
| 9 | Thus , I doubt whether any attempt to review the plaintiff 's decision on the ground that it had failed to consider the planning option would have succeeded . |
| 10 | On the basis that it had continued thus , the blade would have had a total length of about five inches . ’ |
| 11 | Thorn 's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m . |
| 12 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 13 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 14 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 15 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 16 | While criticized by many on the grounds that it had few ‘ teeth ’ and represented a compromise between the DoE and all other departments ( notably those of Agriculture and of Transport ) , it was none the less a major achievement . |
| 17 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
| 18 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 19 | However , he is regarded as a less vocal critic of the government , has banned the study of the Medellin documents and asked nuns and priests to withdraw from their community work on the grounds that it had become too dangerous : |
| 20 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 21 | The new country rejected the new name Azania on the grounds that it had slave origins — and preferring the sense that it was a vital part of the continent as a whole . |
| 22 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 23 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 24 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 25 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 26 | Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations . |
| 27 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
| 28 | There was also hostility towards the report from some of the provincial premiers who had opposed Meech Lake on the grounds that it had made too many special concessions to Quebec . |
| 29 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 30 | The Mexican government protested against the kidnapping of Alvarez on the grounds that it had violated the 1978 extradition treaty between the two countries , and demanded the return of the doctor so that he could be prosecuted in Mexico . |