Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 2 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 3 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 4 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 5 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 6 | This suited me very well because it had large rooms and wide doors . |
| 7 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 8 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 9 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 10 | Sir Robert Cecil , then Governor of the society , was still not satisfied and he cancelled the current lease at Christmas 1597 , even though it had one and a half years to run . |