Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications .
2 Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side .
3 The RHA felt that it had sufficient grounds for proceeding with the initiative , and it was proposed to make ‘ one or more senior appointments … with specific responsibility for coordinating plans and ensuring implementation ’ .
4 D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists .
5 It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said .
6 Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ .
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