Example sentences of "[conj] it had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
| 2 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 3 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
| 4 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
| 5 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 6 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 7 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 8 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 9 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 10 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | The society will argue at the full hearing that it had a legitimate expectation that it would be consulted by the council . |
| 12 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 13 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 14 | It worked in a similar fashion to Papin 's toy except that it had a separate boiler , thus not boiling the water in the cylinder . |
| 15 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 16 | So , for instance , a temple with eight columns might be shown on a coin as having eight , six , four or two ; it was sufficient to show that it had a columned portico . |
| 17 | Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat . |
| 18 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 19 | The major intention of the 1936 Act , however , was specifically to encourage white-collar unionisation , and Bain and Elsheikh ( 1976 ) find no evidence that it had a significant impact upon aggregate union growth . |
| 20 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |
| 21 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 22 | The fact that it had a happy ending was immaterial to me . |
| 23 | What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth . |
| 24 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 25 | And it had a knock-on effect . |
| 26 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 27 | Kiku 's st'lyan was a light golden tan and it had a pure white mane and tail . |
| 28 | It was loud , aggressive and it had a good tune , ’ says Peter Thompson , head of distribution at Red Rhino . |
| 29 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 30 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |