Example sentences of "[vb past] it had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 2 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 3 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 4 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
| 5 | A government official said the US trade representative , Mickey Kantor , had ‘ decided to cancel the talks when the EC indicated it had no flexibility . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Wishing to use this facility , I discovered it had no lock . |
| 7 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 8 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 9 | The lady who owned it had a cook , a kitchenmaid , and two other maids . ’ |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 11 | JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake . |
| 12 | JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake . |
| 13 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 14 | The BBC had no comment to make about the deepening row and said it had no knowledge of any plans to oust him . |
| 15 | Shaw said it had no idea where the plaster had come from . |
| 16 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 17 | The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work . |
| 18 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 19 | Mr Maclean dismissed that as highly speculative and said it had no connection with the draft authorisation under consideration by HMIP . |
| 20 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 21 | But he was wrong when he said it had no effect on him . |
| 22 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |