Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had nine tins of cream in it . |
| 2 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 3 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 4 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 5 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 6 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 7 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 10 | It had all sorts of implications . |
| 11 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In its prime , it had three sets of stones , powered by an overshot wheel . |
| 14 | It had 21 jets of water , a main basin surrounded by 12 flower vases on pillars , and was edged by semi-circular flower beds . |
| 15 | It had rudimentary listings of events , it had previews , but it did n't really have enough . |
| 16 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 17 | Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel . |