Example sentences of "[subord] it had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah one of Andy 's cases this morning I had to do it where it had growth old cash on it , which it should n't have had so it was quite handy . |
| 2 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 3 | One of the production 's virtues was that , although it had TV stars , it was n't just a succession of tacky TV turns . |
| 4 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 5 | The State allied with different segments of the population against the rest , all the time increasing its control , until it had funds sufficient to exercise direct coercion . |
| 6 | Colin Chapman , however , had his doubts and was convinced that if it had barriers around it , similar to those at Monaco , Clark would never have died . |
| 7 | Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’ |
| 8 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |
| 9 | The Board 's determination would , said the court , be accepted if it had warrant in the record and a reasonable basis in law . |
| 10 | The letter was waiting , lying in her pocket in a demanding way as if it had control of her . |
| 11 | Then it would presumably spot some potential prey and come to a standstill in mid-air as if it had brakes . |
| 12 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 13 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 14 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 15 | I can remember one standard lamp we had , it was really weird and people used to say that 'll be alright if you were landing a plane cos it had spotlights , I mean now , they , erm , in fact you can still buy the same sort of thing , but then it was so way out |
| 16 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 17 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 18 | Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM . |
| 19 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 20 | ( There are reports that in fact No. 17 was substituted for No. 5 and became 349 , because it had cushion seats . |
| 21 | This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say , because it had undertones of cynicism , of self-mockery . |
| 22 | Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ? |
| 23 | This tree was different from the others because it had branches hanging down very low . |
| 24 | " Because it had blood on it , that 's why . |
| 25 | Chester by 1780 had only one packhorse service , to North Wales , while it had wagon and coach services to a large number of English towns . |
| 26 | The chaotic transport situation did not harm it , since it had access to local raw materials and fuel . |
| 27 | I forget whether it had wings on it or not . |
| 28 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 29 | ‘ It might have run out of pow before it had time . ’ |
| 30 | The Captain picked up his telephone before it had time to ring . |