Example sentences of "it had reached " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN EC working document on food hygiene , leaked before it had reached its consultation form , is already being criticised , for being too weak . |
| 2 | The current of force in them was eddying slowly round — it had reached a level stretch after whatever rush had carried them here . |
| 3 | In 1980 new bank and building society lending was £15.7billion and by 1988 it had reached £82billion . |
| 4 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 5 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 6 | By the end of September it had reached a news agency reporter in Manchester , who offered it to the Daily Post , an ailing middle-market Fleet Street tabloid , for £15,000 . |
| 7 | by 1976 , it had reached a similar degree of complexity and confusion . |
| 8 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 9 | There was even one tunnel which , after it had reached its original destination outside the wire , was continued twenty or thirty yards to further cover . |
| 10 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 11 | Professor S.J. Prais estimates that in 1909 the share of the hundred largest enterprises in manufacturing net output in the UK amounted to 16 per cent approximately , but by 1970 it had reached 40–41 per cent ; while in the U S over the same period the figure grew from 22 per cent to 33 per cent . |
| 12 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 13 | Probably it had reached its maximum of some 120 by about 1120 . |
| 14 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 15 | But if such a divinity was near , he prayed that the songs had it wrong , because sweet as tales of Nativity were , time was short , and if hope was only a babe tonight then by the time it had reached redeeming age the worlds it had come to save would be dead . |
| 16 | Peak time for radio , once it had reached its post-TV level , was in the early morning , when people were getting up , having breakfast and driving to work . |
| 17 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |
| 18 | By 1906 it had reached South Yorkshire and the North Midlands ; by 1914 Lancashire . |
| 19 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 20 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 21 | He calculates that in 1870 0.6% of the population of the USA were engaged in clerical work ; by 1970 it had reached 18% . |
| 22 | This court held that the board was required to give reasons for the way in which it had reached its award , and that in the absence of such reasons its award was prima facie irrational . |
| 23 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The Dutch company announced at the end of last week that it had reached agreement to buy Liber AB in Stockholm , Sweden 's second largest publishing group . |
| 25 | The 1930s were the era of the detective story , and it had reached its maximum popularity with Edgar Wallace . |
| 26 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 27 | This account could only be drawn on when it had reached an estimated $1,000 million and would be for the purpose of purchasing the external debt bonds of Argentina 's creditor banks . |
| 28 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 29 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 30 | In fact he underestimated the level the national debt would reach ; by the beginning of the war with France in 1793 it had reached £242,900,000 . |