Example sentences of "it had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 2 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 3 | TL was laughably uncomplicated , but , in spite of not being specially designed , it had the splendid advantage of being readily available . |
| 4 | It had the extra amenity of a handbasin . |
| 5 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 6 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 7 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 8 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 9 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 10 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |
| 11 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 12 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 13 | He went on : ’ when comparing Kent with 13 southern counties it had the lowest number of school leavers with five GCSEs grade A to C the second highest number of pupils leaving with no qualifications , the 12th lowest number staying on at 16 . ’ |
| 14 | In spite of the party 's determination to promote women , it had the lowest number of women candidates : 24 per cent of SNP candidates were women ; 27 per cent of Tory candidates were women ; while the Lib Dems again scored highest with 33 per cent . |
| 15 | It had the dubious merit of illustrating the spirit which has pervaded his campaign against Daniel Stewart 's and Melville College in Edinburgh since last June . |
| 16 | It had the right colour in it as well . |
| 17 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |
| 18 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 19 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 20 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 21 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were not much concerned at discovering that we shared our beds with lice , or that the hotel also doubled as a brothel for the town 's leading gentry , because for us it had the finest view in the world . |
| 24 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 25 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 26 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 27 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 28 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 29 | With the black , you know it had the black bit as well |
| 30 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |