Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan on Jan. 22 announced that it had approved the export of 27 tonnes of surgical anaesthetics . |
| 2 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 3 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 4 | In a rare statement on intelligence details , the CIA on Oct. 7 admitted that it had failed to provide accurate information to the Justice Department and the federal prosecutors . |
| 5 | It is easy to forget that it had to start somewhere . |
| 6 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 7 | This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring , catching rhythm . |
| 8 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 9 | Ratsiraka 's concessions followed seven weeks of strikes and demonstrations organized by the opposition Comité de forces vives , a coalition of 16 opposition parties , which on June 21 announced that it had formed a " provisional government " [ see p. 38277 ] . |
| 10 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 11 | All agreed that it had been an exciting week , sometimes emotional and demanding but in the end enjoyable and full of the message of joy and peace . |
| 12 | We all agreed that it had been a most leisurely and pleasant day out . |
| 13 | The latter denied that it had issued any such weapon and the policemen , backed by courageous superiors , charged the man who fired the shots with attempted murder and both men with illegal possession of the weapon . |
| 14 | On El Salvador and Guatemala , Amnesty International said that it had " overwhelming evidence " that the Army and police were responsible for most of the kidnappings and political murders attributed to death squads . |
| 15 | In a press release issued on Feb. 21 the human rights organization Amnesty International said that it had continued to receive reports of the use of torture and of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia since the start of the Gulf war . |
| 16 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 17 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 18 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 19 | Finland on May 6 announced that it had decided to purchase 64 US F/A-18 Hornet interceptor aircraft in preference to ex-Soviet , French or Swedish models to modernize its air force by the end of the century . |
| 20 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 21 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 22 | The SOC government issued a communiqué on March 29 stating that it had ordered an offensive against Khmer Rouge forces in Kompong Thom province , in an attempt to reopen strategic highways . |
| 23 | So would she really have been any less affected if it had happened to her now , at the age of twenty-five ? |
| 24 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 25 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 26 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 27 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 28 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 29 | As to the exact locality of the pain , it was difficult to convey that it had grown , and that instead of having a pain he was now contained inside it . |
| 30 | The Financial Times of Jan. 23 said that it had reflected " the life breathed into local politics " by the direct elections to some Legco seats in September 1991 [ see p. 38436 ] . |