Example sentences of "it had [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 2 | The Berkshire-based company said it had operated at a ‘ much reduced loss ’ in the second half of last year , compared with the first . |
| 3 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 4 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 5 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 6 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 7 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 8 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 9 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 10 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Chung , however , voiced suspicion over the North 's nuclear programme , pointing out that North Korea had not yet ratified the nuclear safeguard agreement which it had signed at the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) on Jan. 30 [ see p. 38721 ] , allowing for international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 12 | The reaction of the audience was enthusiastic , and the play continued to be a popular success after it had opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 16 September , ( Henry Sherek had again wanted to take the play first to New York , but Eliot vetoed the idea ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |
| 15 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 16 | If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , . |
| 17 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 18 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |