Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 2 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 3 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 4 | An advisory body , it had 45 members representing the LCC , the City of London , six county councils , the Standing Joint Committee of Metropolitan Boroughs and 129 local authorities ranging from county boroughs to rural districts . |
| 5 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 6 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 7 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
| 8 | It had French windows opening onto a communal terrace and that beautiful view of Bristol that you get from Clifton and which she clearly loves so much . |
| 9 | It had 30 children attending . |