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

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1 Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating .
2 The latter move was endorsed by the Soviet government , but it was an acknowledgement of an accomplished fact over which it had little or no control .
3 At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control .
4 ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge .
5 Characteristically it becomes difficult , but also necessary , in just this market phase , to distinguish this form of production from others with which it had analogous economic relations .
6 The Labour party achieved an overall majority in five elections , on two occasions by slim margins , and formed the government following the February 1974 election , in which it had more seats than any other party but not an absolute majority ( See Table 5.4 ) .
7 Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party .
8 She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations .
9 He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind .
10 But it it had last all day but
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