Example sentences of "it had [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 2 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 3 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 4 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 5 | The DUP was formed with the intention of increasing the non-evangelical element in the movement , but it had little initial success in broadening the recruiting base . |
| 6 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 7 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 8 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |
| 9 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 10 | Though this was a less controversial aim it had less emotional kick . |
| 11 | By 1983 it had half that number on roll . |
| 12 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 13 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 14 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |
| 15 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 16 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 17 | It had more holy work to do this night . |
| 18 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
| 19 | It had few civil servants and therefore few official secrets . |
| 20 | Most notably , it had several close encounters with the Earth , causing great upheavals , dividing the Red Sea , spattering the landscape with flaming petroleum , and in general making life sheer hell for our ancestors . |
| 21 | It had several gun-shot wounds . |
| 22 | It had several gun-shot wounds . |
| 23 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 24 | That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph . |
| 25 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 26 | It had those coloured people on it . |
| 27 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 28 | I would imagine the ball — it had this intense whiteness and a sort of vast , perpetual unburning non-consuming heat — rolling over the quilt of flesh that was my inside . |
| 29 | Unless it had some other cause entirely … |
| 30 | It had some redeeming features , however , as it was used , according to Cameron , as a beauty aid ‘ much employed among Celtic tribes for dyeing the hair ’ . |