Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 2 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |
| 3 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 4 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 5 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 6 | Grundy rescued it for the Channel 10 network after it had proved a massive flop on rival Channel 7 . |
| 7 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 8 | In mid-March LVMH reduced its debts by selling part of those businesses , the Lanson brand , only three months after it had bought it . |
| 9 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 10 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 11 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 12 | I had n't timed the fifty yards but it had been no sprint . |
| 13 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 14 | If the Government adhere to their position , the decision on the bids would be taken not after due consideration and detailed examination but at the outset by telling one bid that it had not been selected to receive the £48,750 assistance . |
| 15 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 16 | Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated . |
| 17 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 18 | An hour after the seven-year-old bitch 's death a veterinary surgeon found its body temperature was 109.2 degrees and it had died from heart failure caused by heat stress , Birmingham magistrates were told . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party . |
| 20 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 21 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 22 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 23 | The romance lasted for only two months but it had amusing , melodramatic aspects . |
| 24 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |
| 25 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 26 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 27 | In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority . |
| 28 | In the case of powder coatings Morton combined two businesses that it had acquired separately from Philip Morris and Chesebrough-Pond 's in the 1980s , and it did not go smoothly . |
| 29 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 30 | The last experiment , the post-revolutionary Constituent Assembly , lasted but 24 hours after it had tiresomely refused to recognize the authority of the Bolshevik government . |