Example sentences of "[subord] it had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
| 2 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 3 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
| 4 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
| 5 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 6 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 7 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 8 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 9 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 10 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 11 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 15 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 16 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 17 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 18 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 19 | Harvard could implement sweeping changes in its medical curriculum because it had a forceful dean and access to large grants to fund a very ambitious project . |
| 20 | Oliver wanted to go there because it had a sheltered terrace where they could sit outside , but it was too full of memories : it was the place where Rain had sat on her own while Sabine Jourdain was fighting for her life on board the Jonquil , where Tim had left behind his wallet , where Rain had first seen the pedlar . |
| 21 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 22 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In effect , while it had a wide field of reference , at the same time its ability to do things was severely limited . |
| 25 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 26 | The Uruguayan agreement consisted of a barter arrangement ( Soviet oil for Uruguayan wool ) , which suited Montevideo since it had a large surplus of wool and a shortage of foreign exchange . |
| 27 | The mine had its tunnel driven into the side of a steep bank , making the hill look as though it had a toothless mouth . |
| 28 | Many years ago I used to write for a magazine called ‘ Electronics and Computing Monthly ’ which was killed , even though it had a good circulation . |
| 29 | However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment . |
| 30 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |