Example sentences of "[conj] it had an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) .
2 Most of the 800 named by the commission were wanted by Yugoslavia , and the FO secretly acknowledged that it had an excellent case .
3 was not regarded as a political issue in the sense that it had an important place on the agenda of party politics .
4 It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair .
5 I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child .
6 Envy would not be so strong and indefeasible an instinct , unless it had an important function in the evolution and survival of human society , and therefore of mankind itself .
7 They bought a tumbledown Victorian terraced house near the Elephant and Castle , cheap because it had an old man as a sitting tenant on the top floor .
8 The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state .
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