Example sentences of "it had a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
2 | It had a round glass eye protruding from the centre of one face , and a lever at the back . |
3 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
4 | Sheffield was the smaller town , but it had a bigger train station , more industrial soot , more prostitutes , and an all black movie house , the Carver , all in close proximity to one another . |
5 | It had a 6.8 Chrysler engine , an aluminium body , and he drove it very fast . |
6 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
7 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
8 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
9 | It had a narrow street façade , its entrance flanked by shops . |
10 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
11 | Run by headmistress Jean Lowe , who gave evidence on Lord Althorp 's behalf during the divorce case , it had a real family atmosphere . |
12 | It had a curious brass handle , embossed with leaves and fruit . |
13 | In itself , the reform suffered from a number of insuperable flaws : designed from above , it had a tiny support base in the heavily decimated Christian Democrat Party and was drawn up without consultation or reference to El Salvador 's land tenure patterns . |
14 | It had a total seating capacity of 378 . |
15 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
16 | Unusually , it had a rechargeable NiCad battery fitted . |
17 | It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney , and there were two little windows at the front . |
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 | It had a yellow metal clasp . |
20 | Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency . |
21 | It had a special phone number , was equipped with a computer and was permanently manned by a PC or a WPC . |
22 | It had a huge box top over it and she carried it into his study , supporting it underneath . |
23 | The leghorn straw was not large for that particular type of hat and it had a brown velvet ribbon on it . |
24 | Mason 's was one of the largest machine-works in North Sydney and it had a large labour force . |
25 | It had a large earthenware sink and an electric stove where one could heat water in a huge blackened kettle . |
26 | In the centre of the room was a deal table with a top that was scrubbed daily , it had a large cutlery drawer and one of the four turned legs was well worn where generations of cats had sharpened their claws . |
27 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It had an active business operation side and Seaforth — the container port — was still being built . |