Example sentences of "[adv] it had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
| 3 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
| 4 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 5 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 6 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
| 7 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
| 8 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 9 | It was a book without merit , ‘ hack-written and poorly illustrated … artistically worthless ’ ( ibid , p.34 ) , yet it had a deep significance and importance for one reader . |
| 10 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period , when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |
| 11 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |