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

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1 When I found some it had a strange smell — of sweet and sour sauce — and it seemed to be very moist .
2 Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 .
3 By 1700 it had an outer polygonal timber palisade one sazhen high ( a sazhen is 2.13 metres ) and 1,500 sazhens in length , with five towers set into it .
4 In 1981 it had a total income of 171 million pounds for the whole year .
5 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 ) .
6 The Ministry , though in general it had a weak set of personnel by Whitehall standards , was imbued with the common cultural attitudes of the mandarinate .
7 Yes that that 's right it had a special name .
8 By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons .
9 Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move .
10 In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies .
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