Example sentences of "[coord] it had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 2 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 3 | Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister . |
| 4 | I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday . |
| 5 | That 's right , er and it had the same number |
| 6 | First there was a small elephant and it had the natural financial goal painted on its side , then along came a bigger elephant with a bigger number , and then a huge elephant with a huge number , and he said , ‘ Go for it ! |
| 7 | Nazi soldiers burnt the city to the ground in 1944 , and it had the bad luck to be rebuilt , for the most part , by tasteless Stalinists . |
| 8 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 9 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 10 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 11 | He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect . |
| 12 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 13 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 14 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |
| 15 | It felt like a command , as did so many of Elinor 's remarks — but it had the menacing power of a scientific law . |