Example sentences of "it had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 2 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 12 | An aptly named gas , discovered in 1766 , it had that potentially lethal combination of having both explosive and lifting properties . |
| 13 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 14 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |
| 15 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 16 | Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed . |
| 17 | It had that brittle crinkly texture born of much hairdressing , and was ginger , of a brightness to which nature has always been too shy to aspire . |
| 18 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 19 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 20 | It had that dogged look about it . |
| 21 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 22 | Yeah , it had that really feel to it like it does n't feel too alcoholic and then suddenly goes whooooooo |
| 23 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 24 | It had all the facilities needed by the three Services and there were as yet few worries about security of tenure . |
| 25 | It had all the things one likes about art galleries . |
| 26 | The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble . |
| 27 | It had all the rugged grandeur of the sea-girt castle of a medieval Danish warrior-king . |
| 28 | It was only a monosyllable , but it had all of ninety kilos behind it . |
| 29 | It had all the greens and blues and purples of the old country but more so and the sun undoubtedly shone brighter below the Equator . |
| 30 | It had all the characteristics of the Chapman style — swift , direct , efficient . |