Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it had [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
2 | On June 18 the military-led government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt led by the Minister of Public Works and Transport , Col. Abbas Koty . |
3 | They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications . |
4 | One participant argued that it had potential , but that that potential was not being used to the full . |
5 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
6 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
7 | And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres . |
8 | The RHA felt that it had sufficient grounds for proceeding with the initiative , and it was proposed to make ‘ one or more senior appointments … with specific responsibility for coordinating plans and ensuring implementation ’ . |
9 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
10 | It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said . |
11 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
12 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |