Example sentences of "[pron] it had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 2 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
| 3 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 4 | Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency . |
| 5 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
| 6 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 7 | Large armchairs , with loose covers , looked comfortable , but when I sat in one it had a broken spring . |
| 8 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 9 | In the following weeks , Montenegro and Japan joined the Allies , the Turkish Empire the Central Powers , with whom it had a secret treaty ; Italy and Portugal were later to join the Allies . |
| 10 | Er , it it had a peculiar taste with it . |
| 11 | We were not much concerned at discovering that we shared our beds with lice , or that the hotel also doubled as a brothel for the town 's leading gentry , because for us it had the finest view in the world . |