Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 2 | Chesarynth was drowning in light and it had a message . |
| 3 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 4 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 5 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 6 | On Jan. 16 the Central Commission on the Population and House Census announced the continuation of the census in areas where it had not been completed by Jan. 14 . |
| 7 | He clashed with the former Labour MP on air , arguing the bombing was ‘ justified ’ in law because it had been ‘ reasonable in all the circumstances ’ . |
| 8 | He wrote Lettuce and had put the show on in Cambridge before it had come to London . |
| 9 | That cow would have kicked the pail out of the byre in shame if it had squirted anything out like that . ’ |
| 10 | However , Continental Airlines , which had entered Chapter 11 protection during 1990 , said in November that it had reduced its operating deficits . |
| 11 | Drugged again , they regained consciousness outside the valley in anguish that it had all been a dream . |
| 12 | Chris Ivory , chief executive at Bedale food firm Dalepak said he knew of a small company which would struggle to stay in business if it had to raise wages at the present time . |
| 13 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 14 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 15 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 16 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |
| 17 | He said it was the last ’ closed shop ’ in Britain and it had to go . |
| 18 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 19 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 20 | The uncles had looked after her when she was young , then her professor and Hans Kramer and Busacher had begun her on her career , and then she had fallen in love and it had all gone wrong . |
| 21 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 22 | She had originally had it in childhood but it had disappeared at 14 years . |
| 23 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 24 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 25 | Hamas announced in mid-November that it had entered into a formal alliance with Iran which had promised to provide financial and political backing for " the war to liberate Palestine " . |
| 26 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |
| 27 | He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School . |
| 28 | The programme had been linked to student unrest in June and it had indeed become a focus of attention among young intellectuals on the campuses . |
| 29 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 30 | Grotesque in death as it had been , now putrefaction tinged the face a greenish hue . |