Example sentences of "it [adv] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million .
2 No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency .
3 But it also had implicit ones .
4 Er it also had practical consequences .
5 While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda .
6 But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance .
7 It called for strong winds in order to execute the full range of manoeuvres ; but it also had sufficient lifting power for Don to go on television and demonstrate its use as a crop sprayer , photo-ship or bird scarer !
8 The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing .
9 It also had public viewings of nazi propaganda films of an anti-semitic nature , including one on the ritual slaughter of animals .
10 But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time .
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