Example sentences of "'s [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 2 | Responding to the disclosures , the ANC said that the government 's admission that it had funded Inkatha to pursue anti-ANC activities threatened the peace process . |
| 3 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 4 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 5 | When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music . |
| 6 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 7 | Zhukov 's display of loyalty did not soften Party thinking on the subject , and the Chief Political Directorate ( the political arm of the Armed Forces ) stood its ground with greater determination after Zhukov 's intervention than it had before . |
| 8 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 9 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 10 | During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 . |
| 11 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 12 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 13 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 14 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 15 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 16 | During his summing up , Mr Justice Henry had instructed the jury to reject Saunders 's claim that it had been a " victimless crime " because no-one appeared to have lost money through it . |
| 17 | Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) . |
| 18 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 19 | She had been so engrossed in Martha 's life that it had not even crossed her mind that she ( Maxine ) should be frightened of that great expanse of water . |
| 20 | But one ended Patrick 's life before it had properly started . |
| 21 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 22 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 23 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 24 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 25 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |
| 26 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 27 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |