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

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1 But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time .
2 This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees .
3 The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them .
4 She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect .
5 But then , unaccountably , its initial popularity dropped off , and it only had eight further performances that year .
6 But it also had implicit ones .
7 It called for strong winds in order to execute the full range of manoeuvres ; but it also had sufficient lifting power for Don to go on television and demonstrate its use as a crop sprayer , photo-ship or bird scarer !
8 The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing .
9 But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance .
10 Its main use was in medicine , but it also had some domestic application , and was a regular part of mediaeval life in Britain .
11 No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency .
12 I do n't know what was wrong with it , but it still had all its bombs on board when it came down there , behind the church . ’
13 She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs .
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