Example sentences of "it had [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In effect , while it had a wide field of reference , at the same time its ability to do things was severely limited .
2 It had a painted chest of drawers and tiny wardrobe and she fell asleep enjoying their shapes in the fading light .
3 Empty , it had a lingering ambience of warmth , and as she went inside it was even more noticeable now that there were people in it .
4 One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there .
5 The Ministry , though in general it had a weak set of personnel by Whitehall standards , was imbued with the common cultural attitudes of the mandarinate .
6 In 1981 it had a total income of 171 million pounds for the whole year .
7 Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 .
8 It had a limited run of six weeks .
9 Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move .
10 It had a great deal of political significance .
11 No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it .
12 You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial .
13 It had a big bottle of Georgio with it .
14 It had a big cairn of stones which made it quite distinctive .
15 The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales .
16 It had a top speed of just under 20 km/h .
17 And it had a top speed of around 105mph , at a time when most family saloons were struggling to reach 70mph .
18 Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement .
19 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 .
20 Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool .
24 Three metres long and heavy , almost as tall as a horse , it had a menacing array of sharp teeth .
25 It had a designated capacity of around 1,100,000 tonnes of steel a year , of which about half was destined for domestic use and the rest for export .
26 Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country .
27 Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in .
28 The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport .
29 Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe .
30 He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto .
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