Example sentences of "[adv] it had [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
2 | The smears made the shape of a winged lizard , only it had no proper nose . |
3 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
4 | Up on Albert Hill in all likelihood its operations were on the banks of the eponymous river where the Cleveland Industrial Estate is now it had a massive and profitable operation covering 22 acres , employing 1,000 men and boys and working 90 furnaces . |
5 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
6 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
7 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
8 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
9 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
10 | From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas . |
11 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
12 | It was a book without merit , ‘ hack-written and poorly illustrated … artistically worthless ’ ( ibid , p.34 ) , yet it had a deep significance and importance for one reader . |
13 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
14 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period , when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |
15 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |