Example sentences of "[noun sg] it had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 2 | It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn . |
| 3 | Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population . |
| 4 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 5 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 6 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 7 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |