Example sentences of "[conj] it had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that the company adhered to health legislation in every country where it had a market . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’ |
| 3 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 4 | After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth . |
| 5 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 6 | I have never been able to identify the photographer Alec Roberts ' establishment , but I think that it had a balcony . |
| 7 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 8 | Finally Ramsey said that he would respond to any invitation provided that it had a consensus of advice behind it , and provided he was sure that the need for strength in the North was considered . |
| 9 | He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan . |
| 10 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 11 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 12 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 13 | ‘ We realised that the whole psychology of collecting is a fascinating area and that it had a lot more potential … hence the reason for the Festival . |
| 14 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 15 | The house we were in was solid Victorian in style , both inside and out , except that it had a tin roof . |
| 16 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 17 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 18 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 19 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 20 | Mr Spring stressed his belief that the Anglo-Irish Agreement was ‘ very important ’ and insisted that it had a future . |
| 21 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 22 | ‘ I should have thought that it had a hell of a lot to do with you . ’ |
| 23 | Soccer fans would n't mind if the job was given to a hermaphrodite , provided it had a place in the Cabinet , an important voice in decision-taking and an avowed policy to improve sport in Britain , not just soccer but across the board . |
| 24 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
| 25 | It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side . |
| 26 | Chesarynth was drowning in light and it had a message . |
| 27 | He says he saw a fish and then looked at his blade and it had a part missing . |
| 28 | I was watching w Top of the Pops the other night and it had a song on called Do the Buster . |
| 29 | And it had a stain on the shoulder which she said she would hide with a gold rose . |
| 30 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |