Example sentences of "it [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 2 | It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary . |
| 3 | It claimed to have wide support from parents for its provisions concerning homosexuality , the coverage of political issues in the classroom , and the ‘ moral ’ dimension to sex education . |
| 4 | It did have last year . |
| 5 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 6 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 7 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 8 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it did have important consequences within the scholarly study of antiquity itself . |
| 10 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
| 11 | The statement emphasised that the Black Sea Fleet , comprising some 45 warships and 300 smaller vessels , was not considered to be part of the strategic forces , although it did have nuclear capability . |
| 12 | One unnamed area was criticised after it appeared to have industrial dereliction and sad , downcast people . |
| 13 | Pressure for this was considerable and it appeared to have popular support . |
| 14 | Furthermore , as it appeared to have popular support from within the hobby , more detailed information was needed before reacting any further . |
| 15 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 16 | Because superiority was so uncertain for the individual , it had to have one form that was permanent and secure . |
| 17 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 18 | It had had new borrowings or rights issues in each of the last five years and ‘ this pattern appears set to continue ’ . |
| 19 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |