Example sentences of "it [adv] had " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees .
2 In the Habsburg lands Slav nationalism assumed different forms from those it displayed in the Ottoman empire , but it eventually had the same disruptive force in challenging the five-hundred-year-old supremacy of the imperial institutions .
3 Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate .
4 One of these was the loading bay for The Gilded Cage — or , as it apparently had once been called , the Ambassador Club — and the other was its stage door .
5 The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden .
6 But then , unaccountably , its initial popularity dropped off , and it only had eight further performances that year .
7 It only had one wing .
8 When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out .
9 When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film .
10 Japan has experienced enormous growth of its overseas lending activities since 1980 , when it only had about 5% of the world lending market .
11 And it only had the one door .
12 The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure , but could not conceal that it only had one arm .
13 and it only had one over all the speaker
14 It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms .
15 It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms .
16 He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep .
17 Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ .
18 ‘ From what I have learned of you , I would understand it less had you refused . ’
19 The men hammering it together had beckoned us , beaming , inviting inspection .
20 For the sake of the Pound , it better had .
21 That principle was enlisted where a disposition was defective , and rested on the fiction that the nuncupatio had been correctly performed but the copyist who had noted it down had left something out .
22 In particular , he seems to have clashed with the IS lobby , with its own project-related concept of study skills and its conviction that it alone had the knowledge and experience in this field .
23 Politically , and in practice , however , the House of Commons was the working guts of Parliament , and , in addition , it alone had the job of selecting ( and checking ) the Cabinet as the executive to govern the country .
24 Alia had also let it be known that Albania intended to take part in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , from which it alone had stood aside until now .
25 But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer .
26 It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws .
27 It just had to be gone through .
28 I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck .
29 Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting .
30 As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 .
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