Example sentences of "[conj] it had the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community .
2 That this would n't happen , except it had the consent , sometimes — and I fear Nick Ridley fell into this — it wobbled over except aft — into — after consultation .
3 Although it had the support of the United States and France , acceptance of the report was vetoed by five Security Council members , including Austria , China , Cuba and Zimbabwe .
4 The Simon tour aroused angry protest from some opposition groups including the PAC and Azapo , although it had the backing of the ANC .
5 The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited .
6 The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative .
7 My own service was under the impression that it had the huntin' and shootin' rights in this country .
8 At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon .
9 The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products .
10 ( H.C. , 1976 ) the court held that it had the power to restrain publication of material relating to such discussions although the power was not then exercised .
11 In the United States the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , decided that it had the power to declare both the acts of Congress and of the President to be unconstitutional .
12 Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia .
13 Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia .
14 There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence .
15 It seems to me that the court itself had a right of custody at this time in the sense that it had the right to determine the child 's place of residence , and it was in breach of that right that the mother removed the child from its place of habitual residence .
16 The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union .
17 The government insisted that this meant that the ANC should also end recruitment and training , but the ANC asserted that it had the right to recruit inside South Africa for training abroad .
18 His own faith did not have the answers to this , any more than it had the power to prevent the catastrophe , which exacerbated Leonard 's growing disaffection from it , or , should we say , his endless self-questioning of it .
19 Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine .
20 In London Oz and It had the field almost to themselves .
21 It crept towards the table where breakfast was laid , and it had the demeanour of a creature that was n't loved and yet must survive .
22 I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people .
23 On the other page yeah it had a picture of like this chart yeah and it had the picture of a grapefruit in all this sharing , you had to just draw that .
24 It was an appeal to intelligence as well as physical skill , and it had the effect of boosting self-respect , fostering a sense of loyalty , and raising a player 's status above that of a mere paid servant .
25 Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity .
26 The decision was opposed by many , including some who were pro-choice ( in favour of women deciding for themselves ) , on the grounds that the court 's decision was apparently based more on a balancing of policy interests than on specifically legal argument , and it had the effect of stimulating the anti-abortion movement which in turn became a major part of the New Right .
27 But Burck 's Deutsche Passion was the earliest German motet-Passion and it had the distinction of getting into print , in 1568 , before either of Walter 's .
28 Oh well , I do n't know then , but I know she used to live in Spotter 's Wood cos erm they showed that , you see , she showed her this thing , a dog license and that and it said like , the dog and it had the dog 's history on it .
29 On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance .
30 According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context .
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