Example sentences of "it had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 32 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 33 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 34 | It had good ears . |
| 35 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 36 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 37 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
| 38 | The eighth-century chronicler Bede adopted the year-numbering system in his historical works and its use spread , for in a Christian country it had much to commend it . |
| 39 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 40 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 41 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 42 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 43 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 44 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 45 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 46 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 47 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 48 | Moreover , it had serious consequences abroad . |
| 49 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London . |
| 51 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 52 | The country had done quite well without it — it had industrialised and prospered with the use of self-made men of minimum education . |
| 53 | It had fourteen fat Egyptian columns supporting the flat roof , and floor-length windows between . |
| 54 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 55 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 56 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 57 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 58 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 59 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 60 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |