Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] it have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the rejection of the Meech Lake package by English-speaking provinces opposed to the concessions which it had offered to Quebec , there had been a surge in separatist sentiment in the French-speaking province . |
| 2 | ( 17 ) The takeover of the target may cause loan agreements and other contracts which it has entered into to be determinable , or for the other contracting party to be entitled to exercise valuable option or pre-emption rights . |
| 3 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 4 | Distribution services department gained a Gold Award for the improvements which it had brought about in road haulier performance . |
| 5 | By the time that you read this , the Scottish Office Education Department will probably have published its ‘ call for tenders ’ — the list of those areas which it has identified as its priority for funding in 1993 . |
| 6 | Medical science did not make the progress in mastering cancer , heart ailments and mental and nervous disorders which it had made in dealing with communicable diseases . |
| 7 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |
| 8 | In elections to the Bürgerschaft ( city parliament ) in Hamburg on June 2 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) regained the absolute majority of seats which it had lost in the elections of June 1987 [ see p. 35208 ] . |
| 9 | The National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , a DLP splinter group formed in February 1989 by former Finance Minister Richie Haynes , failed to retain any of the four seats which it had held at the dissolution . |
| 10 | In elections in Geneva on Oct. 15 to the cantonal parliament , the extreme right-wing anti-foreigner Vigilance party lost 10 of the 19 seats which it had won in 1985 [ see p. 34253 ] , the Greens increased their share from eight to 13 and the Car Party failed to win any representation . |
| 11 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 12 | The government ordered the Army to intervene on Sept. 6 to end a strike by 40,000 telecommunication workers which it had declared illegal . |
| 13 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 14 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
| 15 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |
| 16 | Before going on to examine the more detailed contributions of Russian Formalism to specific areas of literary studies , it might be worth pausing to assess the Formalist position by comparing it with the assumptions which it had set out to replace , and which to a certain extent continue to inform ( albeit implicitly ) critical studies still being produced today . |
| 17 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | The platform adopted by the convention on July 13 was very much in Clinton 's moderate image , and was devoid of many of the minority-related positions which it had included in recent years . |
| 19 | Hanson , Britain 's largest break-up specialist retains certain parts of the conglomerates which it has taken over , but has as a result itself became a conglomerate — as discussed in the previous subsection . |
| 20 | In supporting the anti-crisis programme , the pact between the 10 Presidents nevertheless instructed the government to revise downwards some of the drastic retail price rises which it had introduced on April 2 . |
| 21 | The magazine found that it could not justify the Crozier allegations which it had published , and agreed to apologise , pay damages and make a statement in open court publicly retracting the libel . |
| 22 | New clauses will be debated and the government will introduce amendments which it has undertaken to introduce . |
| 23 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 24 | Once the government began to exploit their possibilities by raising the true rate of duty and levying special impositions , Parliament remembered its powers and sought to recapture the commanding heights which it had surrendered . |
| 25 | Conservative back-benchers like Richard Shepherd and Jonathan Aitken have voiced their concern at many of the Government 's anti-libertarian actions ; and Enoch Powell has written of ‘ this atmosphere of near-hysteria in which , with general applause , Parliament gets to trample upon the rights and freedoms which it has nurtured and protected through its long history ’ . |
| 26 | It can now find some of the seeds , shoots and vines which it has learned by example are good to eat . |
| 27 | From the second half of the 1960s the CNAA was increasingly involved in the award of degrees for students on courses which it had approved , in a sector of education whose boundaries were being drawn from elsewhere . |
| 28 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 29 | HALIFAX Property Services has moved to impressive new premises at 124a Upper Lisburn Road in the heart of Finaghy 's busy shopping area , having outgrown other premises which it had occupied in Finaghy for years . |
| 30 | To give you an example , suppose the software has read a string of letters which it has interpreted as ‘ 5inging ’ . |