Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 2 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 3 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 4 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 5 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 6 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 7 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 8 | ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it . |
| 9 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 10 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 11 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 12 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |