Example sentences of "[noun] it had a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
2 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
3 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
4 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
5 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
6 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
7 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
8 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
9 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
10 | Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing . |
11 | Amongst those who were Conservative or Labour before the campaign , press bias had about a 6 per cent effect ; amongst those who originally had an Alliance preference it had a 23 per cent effect ; while amongst those who were originally undecided it had a 28 per cent effect — measuring all these effects in terms of the Conservative lead over Labour ( Table 8.14 ) . |
12 | You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial . |
13 | Anyhow I gave them some antibiotic powder to put in its drinking water just in case it had a mild infection and they went away happy and said they would tell their friends . ’ |
14 | In addition to the other openings it had a curious window-like aperture on the side of the snout with sloping sides , rather like a basin . |
15 | Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures . |
16 | On the other hand it had a large compensation . |
17 | Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool . |
18 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
19 | The evangelical and moral reforming endeavour was not , as we know , new , and throughout the century it had a significant impact on the manner of public life . |
20 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
21 | For more than a hundred years throughout the Dales of Yorkshire , the pivot of community life , the one platform for self-expression open to everyone was the chapel It had a virtual monopoly on social life , organizing the annual outings , sports days , tea parties and concerts which were the highlights of the year in an era which was starved of communication and leisure and wearied by the constant treadmill of work on the land . |
22 | Its hands were flung up as well , as if to frighten children ; and on its face it had a manic-satyric grin . |