Example sentences of "it [adv] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , he seems to have clashed with the IS lobby , with its own project-related concept of study skills and its conviction that it alone had the knowledge and experience in this field . |
| 2 | Politically , and in practice , however , the House of Commons was the working guts of Parliament , and , in addition , it alone had the job of selecting ( and checking ) the Cabinet as the executive to govern the country . |
| 3 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 4 | It already had a tatty , dusty look that reminded her of Mr Gerard on Lizard Street . |
| 5 | It was asked to halt the deal by Peabody , the US-based Hanson coal subsidiary , which claims it already had an agreement to buy the Australian business at a lower price . |
| 6 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 7 | It still had a north of England feel about it you know . |
| 8 | It still had the power to turn the stomach , that whisper of shifting allegiance that Thorfinn himself had picked up weeks ago , and that Dunegal of Nithsdale 's hurried warning of danger had seemed to confirm . |
| 9 | But it nonetheless had the ring of truth about it . |
| 10 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 11 | It always had the problem that , no matter what it dealt with , the copy came out in the blacks and greys of its newspaper format . |
| 12 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 13 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 14 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 15 | It also had a manufacturing sector producing chemicals , pharmaceuticals , cosmetics , electronics and precision tools . |
| 16 | It also had a door leading into the main house , connecting with the headmaster 's hall , whence Mr Crumwallis made his occasional incursions . |
| 17 | ‘ The customer had a requirement for a stock of components but it also had a lot of outdated engines . ’ |
| 18 | It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane . |
| 19 | It also had the advantage of avoiding any suddenness in the Baldwins ' departure from Chequers and 10 Downing Street . |
| 20 | But it also had the kind of oddball subject matter that gets one typecast . |
| 21 | And it also had the benefit of requiring very little concentration , leaving her thoughts free to roam . |
| 22 | It also had the acumen to remain neutral in most of the wars fought between Venice and Turkey and between Austria and Turkey between 1420 and the Austro-Turkish war of 1737–40 . |
| 23 | It also had the effect of materially abridging the business of loan societies , most whose loans did not exceed £20 . |
| 24 | It also had the effect — along with other schemes — of lowering teenage wages , a response to the argument put forward by Government and employers that they were ‘ pricing themselves out of jobs ’ . |
| 25 | But it also had the effect of increasing dependence . |
| 26 | However , it also had the effect of obtaining fingerprints from the vendor . |
| 27 | It also had an assortment of different-coloured knobs , a mixture of old and new bridge saddles , a custom bone nut , a left-handed vibrato , burn marks on the headstock and stickers all over the place . |
| 28 | It also had an FxVision module for X Windows-based systems management . |
| 29 | As ecclesiastical reform refocused ideas on the prince 's function , it also had an effect on the way he fulfilled it . |
| 30 | However , undoubtedly the most extraordinary aspect of this grumbling against the tendency of the working class to assert its noisome presence in places where it clearly had no right to go , was to be found in the magnified excitements which surrounded the bicycle craze of the 1890s . |