Example sentences of "it had the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 2 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 3 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |
| 4 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 5 | With the black , you know it had the black bit as well |
| 6 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 7 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 9 | It had the exact headstock that 's on the Washburn guitars , only years and years ago . |