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

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1 In retrospect it was courageous legislation but it had curiously little bite .
2 It had just one room up and one down , big enough only for two people to live in .
3 Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference .
4 Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness .
5 It had very little warmth but the chilly air was helping to clear my head .
6 In the six northern counties of England , it had very little effect on the landscape , except in the East Riding of Yorkshire .
7 It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) .
8 In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into .
9 As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time .
10 Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications .
11 So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas .
12 Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that .
13 It had only one professor .
14 When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds .
15 It had only one room , and one window , which was heavily barred , like a prison cell .
16 Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics .
17 But Mr Murdoch stressed that Levack 's troubles did not stem from the recent collapse of Lilley group ; it had only low exposure to subcontracting .
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