Example sentences of "it [adv] had the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it nonetheless had the ring of truth about it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It also had the advantage of avoiding any suddenness in the Baldwins ' departure from Chequers and 10 Downing Street . |
| 7 | But it also had the kind of oddball subject matter that gets one typecast . |
| 8 | And it also had the benefit of requiring very little concentration , leaving her thoughts free to roam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It also had the effect of materially abridging the business of loan societies , most whose loans did not exceed £20 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But it also had the effect of increasing dependence . |
| 13 | However , it also had the effect of obtaining fingerprints from the vendor . |
| 14 | Very few people , especially Conservative Members , would dispute the fact that until the change in party control in Brent it probably had the accolade for one of the looniest of loony councils . |
| 15 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 16 | It now had the effect of a shot in the arm . |
| 17 | NTSB told ACN it actually had the right by international agreement to make its own investigation , but that , by protocol , it normally waits until invited by the country in which the accident of a U.S. registered airplane occurs . |
| 18 | It certainly had the look , to the impartial observer , of a full-blown affair . ’ |
| 19 | According to what Texas Instruments Inc told us a few weeks ago ( UX No 405 ) , it certainly had the chips . |