Example sentences of "it [adv] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 2 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 3 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 4 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 5 | Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ . |
| 6 | It already had a well-developed product on the market , whilst its rivals were struggling to get one onto the drawing board . |
| 7 | Sadly , it already had a dented side with a broken window . |
| 8 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 9 | The sword hardly varied in form from the twelfth to the fifteenth century : it generally had a two-edged blade , about 40 inches in length . |
| 10 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 11 | It still had a blackish colour but was narrower and less deep . |
| 12 | It still had a good edge . |
| 13 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 14 | This self-propelled weapon was not yet a serious threat ; it still had an effective range of less than a mile , but the tiny torpedo-boats which were beginning to make their appearance heralded a whole new range of warships for the future . |
| 15 | Built in on the site of an older church , it once had a central pulpit with pews arranged round it in a circle . |
| 16 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 17 | It also had a good year , particularly in the UK , although overseas outlets saw ‘ excellent growth ’ . |
| 18 | It was a celebration of life , but it also had a sobering effect . |
| 19 | It also had a cheap supply of raw materials from the slave-based American colonies and required only a radical increase in output for cotton to oust wool from its dominant role in clothing production . |
| 20 | The dolls became amusing , and at times touching , symbols of childhood moods , and although the treatment was at times sentimental it also had a genuine gaiety . |
| 21 | ( As Table 8.2 will show , expenditure on education was higher in each year than the figures shown in Table 8.1 , but it also had a declining trend as a proportion of social product up to 1983 . ) |
| 22 | The Apesokari tomb ( Figure 53B ) had burials in the corbelled circular chamber and in some of the outer chambers : it also had a rectangular cult room . |
| 23 | It also had a secret sales weapon . |
| 24 | It also had a functional role . |
| 25 | It also had an advanced government : podestà , consuls , commune , fighting forces and cavalry . |
| 26 | It also had an upgraded processor , Intel 8086 , which was a more capable version of the 8088 , and , incidentally , was capable of being run at a faster speed — although it was n't . |
| 27 | The small family-owned firms in Illinois , Wisconsin and Florida that were to make it up had an annual turnover of $5m-6m between them in 1968 . |
| 28 | It soon let go — it probably had a serious headache , ’ Anthony said yesterday . |
| 29 | It must not be concluded that the Sahara was well watered in the Pleistocene : it probably had a hot steppe type climate rather than a true desert climate as at present . |
| 30 | Plaited flex certainly but it probably had a large knot or something to increase pressure in the region of the larynx . ’ |