Example sentences of "it [adv] had its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately it still had its fields in the north , with their pipeline systems leading to Turkey and Syria . |
| 2 | It still had its pepper trade and the factories in India at Surat and Madras , and at Bantam in the East Indies , with a number of smaller bases , and it was beginning to look for new opportunities . |
| 3 | Salvation Army missionary history included illness and tragedy , but it also had its success stories like Howard Institute where Eva was heading . |
| 4 | Given that the state superstructure might be ‘ overdeveloped ’ in relation to the class structure of a given colony , because it originally had its base in the metropolitan rather than the indigenous social structure , this does not tell us what it was about colonialism which produced a state system in which the military-bureaucratic oligarchy was dominant . |
| 5 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |