Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 2 | It had nine tins of cream in it . |
| 3 | ‘ It had sixteen teeth in the top jaw , ’ Albert said , ‘ which means its wisdom teeth too . |
| 4 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 5 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 6 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 7 | Oil Mill was particularly well placed for transport , for it had easy access to the road , canal and railway , a special branch line running from the latter across a substantial iron bridge to the rear of the mill , allowing direct loading and unloading . |
| 8 | It had black sheets on it , and George was not sure if that was their original colour or just the result of years of use . |
| 9 | It had tiny windows like a prison , and a high brick wall all round it . |
| 10 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 11 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 12 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 13 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 14 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 15 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London . |
| 17 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 18 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 19 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 20 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 21 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 22 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 23 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 24 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 25 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 26 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | It had regular contacts with Constantinople , notwithstanding its northern position ( near the city of Leningrad ) , by means of the river Dnieper and the Black Sea . |
| 29 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
| 30 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |