Example sentences of "it had a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a newly thatched roof and was enclosed inside a privet hedge . |
| 2 | There was a passageway which ended with an abrupt vertical drop into darkness , but it had a conveniently adjacent stalagmite for attaching a rope . |
| 3 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 4 | The LEA , then , appears to have been interventive on matters which schools themselves ought to have dealt with , and laissez-faire on other matters in which it had a wholly legitimate interest . |
| 5 | It had a slightly Gothic look to it . |
| 6 | It had a curiously bony quality , as of rolling skulls or a whirling dicebox . |
| 7 | From about 1955 to 1975 it had a particularly strong hold here in the form of ‘ conceptual analysis ’ or ‘ linguistic philosophy ’ , in which it was axiomatic that any ‘ empirical ’ question was not philosophical . |
| 8 | It had a particularly strong influence amongst Labour identifiers , especially towards the end of the campaign . |
| 9 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 10 | I believe that in all seasons of the year one would find that it had a most delightful character , . |
| 11 | And I remember this Jackie , and it , it had a most peculiar starting mechanism ever I 've seen . |
| 12 | Not only was it not based in Fleet Street , but it had a completely computerized process and the paper was being contract printed in satellite centres . |
| 13 | It was a kind face , but it had a rather masterful look about it . |
| 14 | So there was no place in therapeutics for lysozyme , but it had a more fundamental value : it showed that substances did exist which were lethal to some microbes and harmless to human tissues . |
| 15 | Certainly it had a more significant effect on English politics than any purely political event in my lifetime . |
| 16 | Minutes later , Jack and Ho heard Ray Shepherd 's voice again , but this time it had a more hectoring tone and they knew he was addressing the meeting . |
| 17 | The tail of iguanodon was artificially curved , and this explains why it had a more upright stance than , say , the tiny Leosothosaurus . |
| 18 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 19 | It had a very poor engine indeed , the twelve-cylinder Alfa Romeo . |
| 20 | When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut . |
| 21 | Er obviously the erm better for overseas visitors pound will help tourism in this country , particularly in London erm the Chairman says Madame Tussauds in fact gets about sixty percent visitors over from overseas , Rock Circus at the moment is about fifty percent and it 's still rising , which partially explains why it had a very good year last year . |
| 22 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 23 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 24 | After all , it had a very vulnerable HP 3000 base to protect . |
| 25 | But Dewey 's application of it had a very direct effect on educational practice in the classroom . |
| 26 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 27 | I 'm glad it had a very happy ending but I did n't cry or anything like that even though there were some scary bits . |
| 28 | It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea . |
| 29 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 30 | If the United Kingdom were geographically more compact , or if it had a much smaller electorate and far fewer MPs to be elected , that might not prove very difficult . |