Example sentences of "it had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While its gardens were small , it had the inestimable good fortune to back on to a park with splendid views across the city and one arm of the river . |
| 2 | His own faith did not have the answers to this , any more than it had the power to prevent the catastrophe , which exacerbated Leonard 's growing disaffection from it , or , should we say , his endless self-questioning of it . |
| 3 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 4 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 5 | The government had to retreat over a plan to sell British Leyland trucks to America 's General Motors — partly because of a rooted popular affection for Britain 's ‘ Land Rovers ’ , partly because it had the air of a Westland mark II . |
| 6 | That this would n't happen , except it had the consent , sometimes — and I fear Nick Ridley fell into this — it wobbled over except aft — into — after consultation . |
| 7 | As he realised it would , it had the impact of blatancy . |
| 8 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 9 | It had the job of destroying the enemy headquarters . |
| 10 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 11 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 12 | Nazi soldiers burnt the city to the ground in 1944 , and it had the bad luck to be rebuilt , for the most part , by tasteless Stalinists . |
| 13 | But whatever it was , it had the same effect . |
| 14 | It had the effect of bringing out the truth from Charles at last . ’ |
| 15 | It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose . |
| 16 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 17 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 18 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 19 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 20 | It had the added refinement of being fully automatic — still uncommon with diesels — and it was difficult to think of a better car for relaxed and economical touring . |
| 21 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 22 | It had the advantage of not only offering a system of training ( that it was intended by Rudolf Laban for the retraining of ballet dancers did not deter physical educationalists from transferring it to colleges and schools ) , but also of offering a rationale . |
| 23 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 24 | In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so . |
| 25 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 26 | It had the same dark hair , the same white skin and the same extraordinarily inviting eyes . |
| 27 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 28 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |
| 29 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 30 | It felt like a command , as did so many of Elinor 's remarks — but it had the menacing power of a scientific law . |