Example sentences of "[coord] it have [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch .
2 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
3 This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English .
4 Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks .
5 Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 .
6 spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go
7 But he said the province was now faced with ‘ a quite alarming series of incidents , which perhaps marks a new phase in the terrorist campaign , and it has serious implications for people in Northern Ireland . ’
8 I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster .
9 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
10 It has two round firebowls with grills that tuck neatly inside when you fold the barbecue up and it has removable legs for easy storage .
11 As we shall see , this typification is a resource used by policemen and women in several situations and for many different purposes , and it has clear relevance in explaining why community relations police in West Belfast retain their commitment despite the difficulties of their task and the restricted nature of their duties .
12 Its current revenue budget is £317 million gross and it has 15,000 staff of which 8,000 are teachers .
13 But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed .
14 The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project .
15 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
16 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
17 The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse .
18 The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact .
19 But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study .
20 The Treasury is only a small department in terms of the number of civil servants that work there but it has tremendous power as a result of its financial role at the heart of government .
21 Thus , Irish nationalism is conceived by most members in an abstract way , but it has concrete import for key groups .
22 But it has material consequences for women , does n't it ?
23 China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper .
24 It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants .
25 Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact .
26 But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods .
27 The term ‘ culture ’ could be used in this way in less complex , smaller-scale social systems , but it has other meanings in industrial society and seems inadequate for the task of relating everyday life to historical development .
28 This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours .
29 A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded .
30 It is not a heartening picture , but it has some validity as a profile of our times .
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