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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It had many features that are associated with Barry 's Italianate club-house style and , according to Dorothy Stroud , Soane was indebted to the Villa Farnese at Caprarola for many elements that he used .
2 A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them .
3 Like Unix , it started life as a development environment , and like Unix , it had intrinsic features that made it unsuitable as a production operating system .
4 It had ivy-clad buildings that looked old even if they were not , rolling lawns , elm trees , a small lake and a chapel with a portico .
5 It had peg-like teeth that were usually found in fossils to be heavily worn from perpetually stripping branches of foliage .
6 Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of .
  Next page